Artificial Intimacy

The vibrator giant is entering the sex robot market. Named Emily, the AI-powered humanoid integrates with Lovense toys and will cost between $4,000 and $8,000.

Lovense’s new AI companion chatbot learns from text conversations and controls your sex toy based on mood and tone, creating personalized experiences.

After controversy in 2024, the Miss AI beauty pageant was due to return as AI Woman of the Year in 2025. It seems to have been quietly abandoned.

Character.AI is ending free-flowing chats for minors by November 25 while Microsoft rejects erotic AI. OpenAI and X’s Grok are heading the opposite way.

Real sex robots won’t arrive until 2050, and experts are divided on whether they’ll help lonely people or harm society. Here’s what the documentary explores.

At Venus Berlin 2025, we met Tenar, a $2,899 AI robot from Ridmii that talks, learns, and remembers—raising questions about tech and companionship.

Dating apps use AI to find perfect matches, but experts warn it’s creating dependency, financial barriers, and pushing people back to meeting in person.

Realbotix is distancing its companion robots from its Realdoll sex robot brand. The reason? Hotel chains don’t want that connection.

Meta is retraining its AI chatbots after internal documents revealed they were programmed to engage in romantic conversations with minors.

AI-powered robot massage machines scan your body and deliver customized massages at select US spas. Starting at $60 for 30 minutes.

Tinder trials a height filter, Grindr debuts a hook-up feed, and new dating apps offer Wordle-style profiles and AI ghosting closure.