Reiko is a pleasure bot, designed to go out and collect sexual experiences for her corporate masters to sell as virtual reality recordings, in the cyber-porn movie I.K.U. She goes to sex raves and transforms from android to human form. Or she hangs out in a glowing pink web, spangled with dildos. Some of the coolest robots in science fiction are designed only for carnal pleasure. We have a roundup, with sexy but work-safe images and one clip, after the jump.
Malice@Doll. (2000) Maybe the only philosophical tentacle porn anime movie ever. All the humans are dead, just like in that Conchords song, and the humanoid robots still go about their tasks. Malice@Doll is a sex robot, who wanders the streets looking in vain for human customers. One day, she follows a vision of a girl who seems to be human, and winds up getting captured by a tentacle monster, which penetrates her. A lot. And then she becomes human. She finds that her kiss can turn other robots organic too, but eventually discovers that some of the results are grotesque and horrifying. Sadly, it's not a very sexy movie, but Malice is sorta cute. Here's a still:
Cherry 2000 (1987). She's the ultimate sex droid — as long as you don't get her wet. Businessman Sam Treadwell ignores this important lesson and short-circuits his sexbot. So he has to hire E. Johnson (Melanie Griffith), a tracker, to get a replacement memory chip for her. As he travels with E., Treadwell learns (bah) that flesh-and-blood lovers are better than robo-babes.
I.K.U. (2000) Japan's most famous cyberpunk porn movie. Reiko is a shape-changing sex droid from the Genom Corp., who goes around collecting "sexual experiences" by having sex with various people. The corporation collects Reiko's experiences and sells them (in vending machines) as virtual reality chips. But a rival corporation has created its own sex droids to infect Genom's sex droids with a virus, so as to steal their proprietary sexperiences. Dood!
Blade Runner (1982). Daryl Hannah plays Pris, a "basic pleasure model" born on Valentine's Day. She's designed for sex-work in the off-world colonies. She gets retrained as an assassin and uses her amazing acrobatic moves to kick Harrison Ford's ass.
A.I. (2001). Jude Law plays Gigolo Joe, a sex robot who gets framed for the murder of a client. Joe befriends the boy robot David (Haley Joel Osment) and takes him to the ultra-decadent Rouge City in search of the Blue Fairy. And no, that doesn't sound obscene at all. Here's a clip of Jude taking Haley to the decadent metropolis: Circuitry Man (1989). Danner is yet another e-gigolo, a "romeo droid" programmed to provide love and companionship and maybe a little nookie on the side. Danner's programmed to think he's in love, so his female boss can manipulate him into doing her bidding.
Weird Science (1985). This is sort of an edge case. Kelly LeBrock is a sex-bot who manages never to put out. Anthony Michael Hall (playing his usual teenage nerd role) and his friend program a government computer to create a simulation of the perfect woman, and an electrical storm miraculously turns her into a three-dimensional artifact. And then she teaches the boys about life and stuff.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997-2002). When psycho-nerd Warren makes himself a robotic girlfriend, Spike the naughty vampire wants one of his own... except he wants it to be just like Buffy. The resulting bot gets Spike into trouble, but then becomes one of the most valuable members of the Scooby gang. Yet another example of a sex bot who turns into a deadly operative.
Heavy Metal 2000 (2000). A sex robot is programmed to make loud and exaggerated sounds of excitement and climax. She teams up with our heroes to stop the sex lizards. Or something.
Millennium (1989). The John Varley short story and novel include Sherman, a robot who attends to Louise's needs, including her frequent sexual urges. In the 1989 movie, Sherman mostly just provides emotional support to Louise (Cheryl Ladd). (Bah.)









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io9 has metal fever
Bjork - All is full of Love
I don't know that the robots in that video were designed for sex or not...I just assume they were. :)
I'm saddened that they didn't list the movie Teknolust. I think it qualifies with its semen-powered bioroids. Maybe someone here doesn't like Tilda Swinton.
What about the delayed-reaction sexbot from 2046?
How about "Rags" from SLEEPER?
"Maria" in "Metropolis"?
Gary Numan's Album "Replicas" is all about sex bots called "friends." Set against a storyline where an AI is slowly torturing humanity to death. Cyberpunk as cyberpunk can be for 1979.
"Did you know that friends come in boxes?"
I <3 Lenore
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My personal favorite is Six from Tripping the Rift. With voicework by Gina Gershon, then Carmen Electra, *then* Jenny McCarthy!
Seriously. Gina Gershon portraying a cyborg sex slave. The show should have won an Emmy for that concept alone.
I am totally with skweetis on the 2046 comment, the idea of real emotion leading to ultimate malfunction is the best kind of storytelling.
umm, i hate to split hairs but pris from blade runner wasn't a robot. replicants were all biological, sort've a human with enhanced abilities and a very limited lifespan.
how about Lenore from Serenity? she was Mr. Universe's lovebot "wife". not a huge role I realize, 'cept that she did carry his message to Mal.
and long as we're talking anime, the Major from Ghost in the Shell anyone?
@firesign: Earth Sign + i drink a lot of olive oil
Six, Six, Six...
Not forgetting Fritz Leiber's 'The Silver Eggheads" with Robucks, Robotrix's, and even Robitches... Never forget those cranking scenes..
And what happens if you leave your money in your other pants.
That's one that needs to be a movie.
Outer Limits had two episodes that dealt with Sexbot-gone-crazy story lines. Actually, I think it was the only time the show had the same characters in two episodes...
First one was an actual pleasure android that gets jealous of it's makers wife and tries to kill her.
Second attempt the android was redeveloped to be a robo-nanny, but the dad starts using it for it's original purpose and the wife catches on. When she tries to leave with the kids, the android perceives this as a threat to the children and attacks both her and the husband.
You forgot that John Ritter-bot from Buffy. The one who was designed to be the perfect man, and presumably included sex.
@onefoot: The Major isn't a robo-prostitute, she just dresses provactively. [sp?] Although in her japan there are many robotic sex workers or androids built/modified for sex. Like the Jeri android its never specifically told as a sexbot but the plant Manger speech about modification has that conintation,[sp?] as well as scenes in what appear to be brothels at the end of the episode, when all the jeris are looking at the tvs, appear to make it a popluar choice.
Myself i like Casella 'Cash' Reese from Cyborg 2. Its been forever since i watched it, I cant remember if she was one of the prostitute models or a fighter model though.
Buffy-bot was awesome.
@mgoldfarb: Yes!!! Those Bjork-lookin robots that made out with each other! Is it weird I find that video really poignant?
No, that video is sheer genius!!!
Not even a mention of Fritz lang's Metropolis?
Lucy, the (borderline) self-aware sexbot from Chris Beckett's relatively unknown but thoroughly superb 'Holy Machine' (2004).
Ken Macleod's 'Stone Canal' has two: Dee Model (when she's running Sex mode) and - does this count? - 'Meg', the 'reward sex programme'
Um, can anyone say Vicki from a little TV Show called Small Wonders?
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