• bitofhope@awful.systems
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        25 days ago

        It’s when you combine sex toys with remote control, typically over the internet.

        Applications include obvious things such as synchronizing a vibrator to the action in an adult video to enhance immersion, kinky play like letting a partner or audience member control a tactically placed vibe, or even humorously creative stuff like using an artificial vagina as a video game controller. There is some quite interesting and fun work being done in the area, such as the Buttplug protocol.

        Based on your username you might already be familiar with all this, though.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      27 days ago

      Yeah, the whole “sex robot” thing is kneecapped by the simple fact that very few people want a person sized sex toy to have to shove in a closet when most people can take care of most of their needs with stuff that takes up the space of a shoebox.

      Plenty of edge cases of course, but those don’t make the ubiquitous sex robot future that most of these sorts of headlines envision. Plus, VR headsets and multi axis mounted fleshlights still mean you don’t need a full humanoid robot.