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Realbotix is a United States company that designs and manufactures lifelike, AI-powered humanoid robots for companionship, entertainment, and customer service. The company is best known for Aria, a customizable adult-female-presenting humanoid robot with a silicone face driven by 17 motors, which it markets as a conversational companion and which it has also deployed in public-facing roles. Realbotix grew out of the adult-products maker Abyss Creations (the company behind the RealDoll brand) and its robotics work led by sculptor Matt McMullen, and it became a publicly traded company in 2024 after the Toronto crypto holding company Tokens.com acquired the business and rebranded itself Realbotix Corp. The parent company trades on the TSX Venture Exchange as XBOT, on the US OTC markets as XBOTF, and in Frankfurt as 76M0, and is led by chief executive Andrew Kiguel, a co-founder of the Bitcoin miner Hut 8.
The lineage begins with Abyss Creations, a company founded by Matt McMullen in 1996 in San Marcos, California. Abyss became known for the RealDoll, a brand of high-end, anatomically detailed silicone mannequins that drew on McMullen's background in sculpture and Hollywood-style special effects. The dolls were marketed largely as adult products, and the company built a reputation for realistic silicone skin technology.
In 2014 McMullen launched a robotics effort, originally branded Realbotix, to add animatronics and artificial intelligence to the company's silicone bodies. The first major output was Harmony, an AI system released as a smartphone app in early 2017 that let users build a virtual companion with a customizable personality and voice, paired with a robotic head that could move its eyes, mouth, and neck and hold a basic conversation. The animatronic heads were sold as add-ons to RealDoll bodies, with prices that started above $10,000. The work attracted wide press coverage as one of the first commercially available "sex robots," and the company explicitly positioned the technology around companionship, memory, and conversation rather than purely physical function.
The robotics and AI operations, together with Abyss Creations, were held under a Nevada-based parent, Simulacra Corporation, with McMullen as chief executive. Over the years the unit produced celebrity collaborations, most notably a 2019 robotic replica of the comedian Whitney Cummings that she featured in her Netflix special "Can I Touch It?"
In April 2024, Tokens.com Corp., a Toronto-listed company that had focused on Web3, cryptocurrency, and metaverse real-estate investments, acquired Simulacra Corporation in an all-stock deal. Tokens.com issued 75 million common shares to Simulacra's shareholders, a transaction valued at roughly $16.7 million. Andrew Kiguel, who had co-founded Tokens.com and earlier helped build the Bitcoin mining company Hut 8 before more than two decades as an investment banker, became chief executive of the combined business. McMullen stayed on, later titled founder and chief creative officer.
The deal marked a strategic pivot from cryptocurrency to robotics. On May 22, 2024, the company announced it would rebrand from Tokens.com to Realbotix to reflect its new principal business. It changed its TSX Venture Exchange ticker to XBOT effective May 24, 2024, later moved its US OTC symbol to XBOTF, and adopted the Frankfurt listing 76M0. The legal name change to Realbotix Corp. was approved at the company's annual meeting in July 2024. Through fiscal 2025 the company wound down its legacy crypto-staking operations and concentrated resources on AI software and humanoid hardware.
In late September 2024, Realbotix announced that Aria, its flagship robot and brand ambassador, had accepted a non-executive role as an advisor to the company's board of directors. The company said it believed this was the first time an AI-enabled robot had been used in such a role. Kiguel framed the move around the idea that an AI system can process large volumes of data and offer recommendations without the biases a human director might bring. The announcement functioned largely as a marketing demonstration of the technology rather than a conventional governance appointment, and it drew substantial press attention.
Realbotix sells modular robots built around a detachable, AI-enabled head and an interchangeable face system. Faces, hairstyles, and personalities can be swapped, and the company uses magnetic modules and RFID so the robot recognizes which face is attached. The head uses 17 motors and 17 degrees of freedom to produce facial expressions and eye and mouth movement, and is finished in the company's silicone skin. Realbotix has described its hardware platform as modular and partly open-source, intended to let developers and enterprise customers build on it.
The current lineup is organized into three series, sold direct from the company. Pricing has shifted over time: early 2025 coverage cited about $10,000 for a head-and-neck bust, roughly $150,000 for a modular full body, and about $175,000 for a full standing model on a rolling base, while the company's own product pages later listed the starting prices shown below.
| Series | Description | Degrees of freedom | Starting price (per Realbotix) |
|---|---|---|---|
| B-Series | Robotic AI-enabled bust (head and neck), the entry option | 17 | from $20,000 |
| M-Series ("Melody") | Modular robot with a stationary lower body and full upper-body motion; can pack into a suitcase; seated, standing, or desktop configurations | 39 | from $95,000 |
| F-Series | Full-bodied premier model on a motorized wheeled base with a battery (about 4-8 hours) for indoor mobility | 44 | from $125,000 |
The M-Series and F-Series are offered in female, male, or custom configurations. "Aria" is the company's named female character and brand ambassador, "Melody" is the name associated with the M-Series modular robot unveiled at CES 2025, and "David" is a male character introduced at CES 2026, marking a shift for a company that had historically focused on female-presenting models.
Realbotix says its robots run on proprietary, fine-tuned AI models and that the software supports more than 100 languages. The company markets what it calls relationship-based AI, designed to remember users across conversations and adapt to their preferences. The robot is operated through a controller app, and the company has offered a monthly subscription, around $199.99, for software updates and the customizable AI assistant. The platform can also connect to third-party large language models; the company has referenced support for OpenAI's GPT models alongside its own. In September 2025 Realbotix launched "Ask Aria," a web experience letting the public chat with a hyperrealistic AI version of the Aria character.
Realbotix emphasizes "embodied" or physical AI that runs on-device, so the robot can perceive and respond without human teleoperation. It also markets a patented vision system housed in the robot's eyes that supports face recognition, emotional cue reading, and visual tracking of people.
Although Realbotix's origins are in the adult market and personal companionship, the public company has steered its marketing toward commercial uses such as customer service, hospitality, healthcare, education, and entertainment.
Realbotix is a small-cap company whose revenue is still modest. For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, its first full year following the Simulacra acquisition, the company reported revenue of about $2.01 million, up roughly 121% from $912,537 the year before, with gross margin improving to 34.3% from 19.8% and operating expenses of about $6.9 million. For the second quarter of fiscal 2026 (the three months ended March 31, 2026), Realbotix reported revenue of about $225,000 and total comprehensive income of about $442,000, with six-month revenue of about $578,000; the company attributed lower revenue partly to winding down crypto-staking and repositioning legacy products while investing in robotics.
On February 12, 2026, Realbotix announced a plan to list its US robotics business on Nasdaq through a reverse takeover. Under the proposed transaction, Realbotix LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary, would combine with Onconetix, Inc. (Nasdaq: ONCO) in a share-exchange / reverse-merger structure, leaving the parent Realbotix Corp. with a 75% to 90% ownership stake in the listed entity depending on Onconetix's net cash at closing. The company said no new parent-company shares would be issued and no share consolidation was required, and that the deal was expected to close before October 31, 2026, subject to Onconetix shareholder and regulatory approval. Realbotix described the subsidiary as designing and manufacturing AI-powered humanoid robots for consumer-facing social roles, with an engineering division, an AI software division, and a portfolio of robotics patents.
Realbotix's robotics and manufacturing operations are based in the Las Vegas area. In April 2026 the company announced it was relocating to a larger, purpose-built Las Vegas facility to expand assembly capacity and unit output, with the move expected to be completed by the end of June 2026 and the prior site vacated by the end of July 2026.
Realbotix occupies an unusual position between the companion-robot field and the broader social robot market. Its emphasis on hyperrealistic silicone faces and customizable companionship invites comparison with Hanson Robotics and its Sophia robot, and with the expressive humanoids of Engineered Arts such as Ameca, although Realbotix's roots are in companionship and adult products rather than research or stagecraft. Coverage of Aria has frequently focused on the "robot girlfriend" framing and the company's stated interest in addressing loneliness, and reporting has also noted the ethical debates that surround intimate companion robots. Compared with locomotion-focused humanoid makers such as Figure AI, Tesla Optimus, and Unitree, Realbotix differentiates itself on facial expressiveness, lifelike appearance, and conversational AI rather than on walking, dexterity, or industrial labor; its robots are stationary or move on wheeled bases rather than walking bipedally.