i'm tside sadiego to meet matt mcmullen. the founder of realbotix. matt is building androids that people will want to embrace, physically. - the goal is to create not only a robot, but an ai that are both appealing enough, that someone would feel like they were actually getting to know someone, not some thing. - [shivani] once the sculpting and casting is complete members of matt's team mold the silicone skin on an actual functioning robot. - the faces are actually modular. the face just literally comes off. - yes it does. - the idea is you create one robotic hea and a whole bunch of different characters that can allun on that same heads. so all of the things that move in the face are actuated by these magnets that are in the skin. - matt's team of programmers use artificial intelligence to create advanced chatbots for these robots. the goal is for them to have natural conversations with their companions. it's blinking. - yeah, she's blinker. - this is a test of my system. - oh my gosh, it's looking at me. - hello, how are you today? - i'm okay. i'm f