Real-World M3GANS: 5 Robotic Friends You Can Make (Buy) Right Now [Video]

The Model 3 Generative Android, aka M3GAN (now streaming on Peacock), is the latest in a long line of fictional killer robots, but she was intended to be the ultimate human companion. When 8-year-old Cady’s parents were killed in a car accident and her world was upended, she needed someone to connect with. Cady found that connection in M3GAN, an artificially intelligent machine designed to be the perfect best friend.

It turns out that M3GAN takes her job deadly seriously, as we probably should have suspected. From M3GAN to Chucky, there’s something innately frightening about an artificial friend, but that’s a hang-up we might need to get over. In the not-so-distant future, the real friends will be the ones we make (in a factory) along the way.

While the evidence suggests that there’s no replacing real human connection, an artificial companion might be the next best thingfor the millions of people going through life alone. Whether …