i'outside n diego 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 head and a whole bunch of different characters that can a run 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, shs a 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