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Doug Hines, owner and designer for TrueCompanion, unveils Roxxxy, an artificially intelligent sex robot prototype, at the 2010 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo on January 9, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images). An oral sex enthusiast's plan to open a robot blowjob cafe in London is not the plot of some Westworld or Black Mirror episode or another Stepford Wives remake, it seems, but rather part of reality. Inverse reported last month that sextrepreneur Bradley Charvet will be bringing his vision for futuristic fellatio to Old London Town. According to the site, the cafe's robotic staff will provide customers with coffee, pastries, and oral sex between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. daily, and may themselves represent a (potentially rented) selection of MySiliconeLoveDoll's finest gynoids. Charvet believes Londoners are ready for the service, or at least "willing to engage with the idea" of robotic workers entering their coffee and sex industries.

A coffee shop that is set open in Switzerland where customers can receive oral sex while they drink is considering using robots rather than real-life prostitutes. The outlet, which is due to be up and running in Geneva by the end of the year, was due to see men order a coffee before choosing their prostitute on an iPad. Patrons would pay more than £40 for the hot drink and sex act, according to the firm Facegirl, which is modelling the idea on similar establishments in Thailand. However, as the cafe has yet to receive the seal of approval from authorities in Geneva, the company behind the plans say they could use sex robots instead of women to carry out the services on offer. Bradley Charvet from Facegirl told the Local that he had already been in contact with an American firm that manufactures the lifelike robot-women that cost up to £2,400.