Realbotix introduces life-like robots that can form emotional bonds VIDEO

Unilad has recently highlighted in its article the growing trend of humanoid AI-powered robots, sparking intense reactions online. 

Realbotix’s website showcases a range of “modular AI-enabled robots,” offering a product designed for full customization. 

Realbotix's website highlights: "Whether you choose from our pre-created characters or opt for a fully customized humanoid, Realbotix offers a robot tailored to your exact specifications."

According to Realbotix's YouTube account: "Through our patented technologies and proprietary companionship-based AI, we combine lifelike aesthetics and movements with advanced engineering to create meaningful human-robot interactions, enhancing the human experience through connection, learning, and play."

The available robots range from one with only a 'bust,' one featuring a 'paneled body,' and a full-bodied model, with prices spanning from $10,000 to $200,000 and beyond.

CEO Andrew Kiguel introduced the female companion model, Aria, during the CES tech event in Las Vegas.

He stated, as reported by The Express: "This is our flagship humanoid AI-powered robot. She’s highly realistic, she has her own social media so she may be competing with you one day. What makes her really special is you can talk to her and ask questions.

"Some of our peers in the robotics space make robots to replace human labour. We think that’s a great area but we think there’s a much bigger area in having social robots."

It didn't take long for people to share their opinions on social media.

One Twitter user remarked: "How people are so comfortable around these is crazy to me."

"This makes me feel so uncomfortable," another commented.

A third person concluded: "If this becomes a widespread consumer product, im moving to the mountains in isolation. Just weird man."

UNILAD has reached out to Realbotix for comment.

However, Kiguel explains that the robots are being created with the aim of addressing a "huge epidemic" of loneliness "among adults and teenagers."

He reveals that the robot can be "programmed to know you and learn more about you" and create a "bond" that "feels like a genuine human condition."

"They don’t have the ability to clean the house, they don’t do physical labour," the chief executive clarified. "But they’re more there to converse with you, it’s companionship. They can actually even be a boyfriend or a girlfriend, so we have built that into our AI."

By Naila Huseynova