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Sex Robots: Experts Debate the Rise of the Love Droids

posted by janrinok on Sunday December 25 2016, @05:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-talk-no-action dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Would you have sex with a robot? Would you marry one? Would a robot have the right to say no to such a union?

These were just a few of the questions being asked at the second Love and Sex with Robots conference hastily rearranged at Goldsmiths University in London after the government in Malaysia - the original location - banned it. It has proved controversial, not only to countries with conservative views.

There were no representatives from the sex industry in attendance and no sex robots on display, leading some to question the point of the event.

RealDolls, a Californian-based firm that makes lifelike sex toys, claimed that it would release an artificial intelligence-enhanced sex doll next year. The launch, if it happens, will be vindication for Dr David Levy, who has long predicted the era of intelligent human-looking robots.

A story for those hoping to find a Fully Integrated Security Technotronic Officer under the tree Christmas morning...

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @07:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @07:11PM (#445849)

    Surveillance? What kind of surveillance information would some one get from a sex doll? How many times a person gets his rocks off? No one but social conservatives will give a rats ass about how many times a politician polishes his pole. I personally would not want to know. The best way to look at this situation is that they have effectively removed themselves from the gene pool. Congrats!

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @08:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 25 2016, @08:27PM (#445861)

    No one but social conservatives

    And those are the exact people running the US now.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @06:38AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 26 2016, @06:38AM (#445987)

      Weiner!