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Elderly people living in care homes could soon be enjoying the company of specifically designed sex robots, according to a leading organization in the field.
The freakishly realistic robots could be widely available within the next decade, used not just by fetishists but as a tool for sexual therapy and communication.
[...] Professor Sharkey, who was speaking on Wednesday at the launch of a new consultation report, said it is time for the government to step in and start regulating sex bots.
“They are being proposed for the elderly in care homes, which I think is controversial. If you have severe Alzheimer’s you can’t really tell the difference,” said the researcher.
Source: RT
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How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 06 2017, @05:20PM (1 child)
Well call me little miss outlier then. Never had any attraction to men. I can appreciate a well-built man but in the same way as a well-sculpted statue or nicely-engineered piece of machinery. I'm not FtM or even at all butch, either, waaaaay more Portia then Ellen. So there's a fly in that jar of bell-curve ointment...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Thursday July 06 2017, @07:16PM
Assuming it's true in the first place (not established), it'll still be a curve or at least some kind of peaky distribution. You'd just not be in the middle or peak of it. No flies. :)