Dominic Choy of Cammeray, New South Wales, wants to replace real sex with an online robotic experience. He proposes a lifelike flexible mannequin covered with imitation skin . Servo motors move its limbs and other body parts (i.e. genital) in response to control signals both from the Internet and from touch and sound sensors on its body. Two people with matching mannequins connect over the Internet, wearing virtual reality visors so they can see and hear each other, with the robots acting as intermediaries.
The doll itself will be essentially passive, but certain key body parts would be motor driven.

Couples can get together from opposite ends of the Earth.

Choy applied last April for a patent on the technology and was granted U.S. patent WO 00/59581 in October, according to the patent application.