The Robotics Stack
00:22:52 · Xara
[00:22:52] S2: So the muscle right now, three d printed, it's called TPU. It's called thermal polyethylene. It's type of elastic polymer that can be formed to certain ships under, certain temperature conditions. So it's so nice because you can ship in any forms you want with three d printing technology. The skin, in fact, is a combination of WPU, water polyetherant with the silicon. So, basically, what happens is that beneath the skin, the core layer is still silicon. Right? Traditional silicon. But we overlay with a new type substance called WPU in order to make sure the skin does not have any kind of liquid or oils that comes out of it. And do you guys know what WPU is using? Take a guess. WPU. What do you think? What's some texture that feels like human, right, but not certain condoms? Well, let let me give you answer. It's actually using some of the best condoms or some of the materials in, you know, we're inspired by condoms, and we have very thin layer of condom like, substance and materials. We overlay it on top of the certain skin so that it feels more like a human. Second thing is that because it was you... Utilized in condom, right, it has very good structure integrity. It's it's very hard to break. It's a very good elasticity. It actually strengthen the entire silicon to make it even stronger. And not only does it feel more like human skin, but it's also not oily, and it also is more structurally more more strong than traditional silicone. So what happened between the skin, the muscle, and skeletal layer is that there's also heat sensor. So when you touch our robots, it actually maintains it's 37 degrees. Also, there's feedback sensors underneath the skin as well so that when you touch it, it actually respond to you. As I showed you earlier, there's actually sensor implemented as part of the vaginal parts. The skin and the muscle itself is a very complex system with the skin on top, with the sensor and heat parts, in the middle, and there's muscle and skeleton right beneath it. So the whole thing is so precisely engineered way, and we we take so much inspiration from humans. Right? And we try to essentially understand human... How human works and build it in a way so that it's it's almost feel like a human. And another note that I wanna build is that the whole machine is modular.
00:24:47 · Xara, Oskar
And I just wanna emphasize that because the skin, the head, the muscle can be a modular design, you can switch out any kind of head, skin, and muscle anytime that you want. But the skeleton is stable. You only need to buy one skeleton. Then later on, if you wanna change to another look, you can customize it any way that you want. [00:25:04] S0: I think on the website when I checked it, I checked it multiple times and I think you were constantly working on it because you're, like, starting out kind of and doing all sorts of changes and updates, of course. But there, it seemed like you had some specific base versions that you were going to offer. Is that still the case? Or or would you say, okay, we just have this one base version, and then you can customize as you want.
00:25:24 · Xara
[00:25:24] S2: That's that's a good question. So very soon, we're gonna have four fundamental figures. We're have four different looks, and we call it America's Favorite Cyber Honey. Let me show you this really quickly. And it comes in four forms. There's a white girl, Latina, black girl, and Asian girl. So all these characters are built in ways so that the face are designed by us. Right? And very soon we're gonna launch campaign. So you're right. Initially, the face are designed by us. We want to understand how, you know, people in, let's say, US like likes when it comes to beauty. Then we wanna build those spaces. And also, we we come up with something even bigger in the future. We have something called Somniverse. Somniverse is like our version of Marvel. Right? And we're gonna come up with six different kind of series of robots when it comes to intimacy. So the origin is the robots for straight men and straight women. And we also LGBTQ versions. Right? Transgender robots, you know, lesbian, gay robots. Also, we're working with a lot of different point star and to turn them into robots. One of the point stars that we're talking to is Bonnie Blue. Right? We really wanna turn into, robots because every single robots that we sell at Bonnie Blue, we're gonna have some revere share with them. Also, in in Japan and in East Asia, the anime culture is getting more popular. So in the future, we're going to turn a lot of anime characters also into robots. Maybe some kind of fantasy characters too, like an angel, a demon, or even some kind of, you know, fairy, or even something crazier. We can turn Avatar, a beast, you know, an alien to intimacy robots. So our company, at its core, we believe love is universal, and people have different preferences and kink. Right? We wanna be able to build robots in a so that satisfies all kind of human fantasy. But in order to do that, we wanna make sure, again, the internal skeleton is built in a way so that it's stable, so you can just you can just change the skin and the muscle that comes along with it.
00:27:04 · Leo
[00:27:04] S1: Yeah. So you mentioned earlier, maybe I misunderstood that you started last year on this project. You seem very advanced for a project that is pretty much one year old. So I'm curious about that. Did you actually start last year? Did you pivot from something else? How many people are you working with? Did you raise money? Because it feels like you have many advanced technologies. Just the face to me looks state of the art. I mean, I've seen companies making face only that don't look as good as yours to be honest from what I've been seeing. So I'm curious about that, like funding, how many people you work with, and how long you have been at it.
00:27:37 · Xara
[00:27:37] S2: So in fact, it was started at the end of last year. It was at the end of November, very close to December. So we've been around for ten months, almost a year now. And we are very lucky to be joined by over 30 plus engineers, all very talented engineers, very young. The average age of company is only 25, and some of them are recent graduates, some of them are are new engineers that's come up with some of the top schools all around the world. So we are super lucky to work with relatively big team of, versatile engineers to make this happen. And, so for the robotics phase, we have developed five generations. Initially, it was really, really bad. As you guys can see, it can only blaze his eyes. But later on, we keep iterating it. And, you know, the surprising part... Let me let me tell you the hardest part about being in this robotic face. The hardest part of being in this robot face was actually not the internal skeleton or the structure. The hardest part is actually the sun con skin, the skin on top of it. Because skin is a... The sun con is a very complex substance, and every single part of the skin has a different kind of width and thickness. For example, since the eyes need to move a lot, the thickness of the sun con skin has to be very, very thin. Otherwise, the actuator cannot move the robotic eyes. So for example, since the mouth has to be very, very flexible. Right? The skin here is also very, very thin. So basically, what we realized that in order to build the most human like robotic face, it's a conjunction, it's a combination of optimizing the skin around the robotic structure, the internal skeleton. And I would say there's no rocket science in this. We did so many experiments. We did hundreds of experiments in order to get the perfect skin width and the thickness, in order to get the perfect structure to combine with the robotic parts to make it look very natural. It was a very difficult process when we first started, but we're very lucky. We started getting, you know, a better and better looking robotic face and also a better better looking robotic body.
00:29:25 · Leo
[00:29:25] S1: How do you hire for such a company? What does the job description look like? How do you vet people? How do you filter them out? How do you make sure the workplace remains, I would say, a safe space for lack of a better word?