CHICAGO — The Autoblow A.I., backed on Indiegogo by 2,400 men for $315,000, has set a new record as the highest crowdfunded male sex toy in history.
According to the company, in order to create the Autoblow A.I.’s movements, inventor Brian Sloan’s team watched and manually ingested data from 8,000 minutes of videos of oral sex performed upon men before handing a terabyte of tagged blowjob images over to a team of Ph.D. artificial-intelligence scientists.
The scientists applied several types of machine learning algorithms to the dataset to discover the 16 most common movements of oral sex givers’ mouths on receivers’ penises, the company said. Autoblow's study could be viewed here.
The Autoblow A.I. combines electronics with patent-pending robotics to grip and pull the penis in human-like ways. The machine’s microcontroller works with an I.R. beam sensor and magnetic field sensors to control a gripper that manipulates a sleeve between any of 250 micro-locations along the five-inch-long stroking plane.
Used with lubricant, the Autoblow A.I. provides the same gliding and sliding sensation that occurs during oral sex performed by a human-being using his or her mouth, hand and saliva.
The crowdfunding campaign launched on Oct. 17 with a goal of raising $50,000, and concluded two months later raising $315,000, or 626 percent of its initial goal.
“Many people (thinking its strange) have asked me why I would devote years of my life to creating a device that gives oral sex to men,” Sloan said. “Now that Autoblow A.I. has been pre-purchased by more than 2,400 men in 46 countries the reason should be crystal clear: because this is what men want. The monotony of manual masturbation will no longer be a burden to the men who choose my device. Although masturbation is something we do by ourselves, I believe we can use artificial intelligence to make the experience infinitely more fulfilling.”
