It comes as no surprise to readers that we at SexRobot.com believe that sex with robots is in our future. But when? President of the International Computer Games Association, expert on artificial intelligence, and author of the new book “Love and Sex with Robots,” David Levy, says that in a few years everyone will be having sex with robots.

He cites that companies making lifelike dolls are fetching prices in the high thousands, and that they are adding sensory features like nipples that appear to react to pleasure. Mr. Levy believes that by 2050 sex robots will be having full and interesting discussions with us. We disagree with this timeframe, given the nature of exponential technological advancement; intelligent sex robots should arrive considerably sooner than that. Read Ray Kurweil’s excellent book, “The Singularity is Near” to better understand this concept.

While he suggests that some people will end up marrying their robot, he doesn’t seem that enthralled with engaging in carnal pleasures with a robot himself, given his statement, “If I had a robot I’d make it clean the bathroom and dust.” Maybe it depends upon what she’s wearing, David.

Read: CARNAL KNOWLEDGE: Sex with robots? Soon, he predicts

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Here we have a 16 minute short film, called Moriya, where a beautiful life sized mechanical doll becomes the surprising object of a shy, mechanically inclined, fifteen year old boy’s emotional and sexual awakening.. It is an adaptation based on the short story of the same name by New Orleans author Dean Paschal.

You can read the story in Best American Short Stories 2003. In addition, I’ve found the story published on the web here.

Full credits for the stark, somewhat haunting and spellbinding film are listed at the end. Sit back and enjoy.

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The Japanese are fascinated with robots, and they are fascinated with sex, so of course, as any of you who follow the development of humanoid robots know, the Japanese are definitely fascinated with robot girls and future sex robots. This is a short television commercial by either or both Japanese mobile phone carriers KDDI and Tu-Ka. It is intriguing to watch how they have incorporated a female robot into it.

Apparently, the robot girl is turned off, laying on the phone, when a phone embedded in her arm rings and activates her.

I’m interested in learning what the words in the song mean, if any of you can understand Japanese.

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I don’t know much about this singing robot; just saw it on YouTube.com. But, I thought I’d share it with you for fun. Looks a little cold doesn’t she?

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Artificial skin on today’s silicone sex dolls has come a long way, giving the user a smooth and pleasurable feeling. But as sex dolls move closer to sex robots — androids that provide a more truly “human” experience — the body’s largest organ, the skin, must become more and more realistic.

Robotics professor Takashi Maeno and his research team at Keio University have teamed up with cosmetics manufacturer Kao Corporation to develop artificial skin that studies show feels natural.

Previously, artificial skin inventors have been working on pressure-sensitive skin, which uses organic field-effect transistors. This was an evolution, but this new skin seems to have topped that.

The researchers report that 10 out of 12 people agree that it feels like regular human skin. To take the subjectivity out of the surveys, they also used machines to confirm that the characteristics of the artificial skin were similar to the skin of organic, natural humans.

The real human skin feeling is attained by an outer 1-cm thick elastic silicone “dermis” with a 0.2-mm thick firm urethane “epidermis.” Then, to give it texture, tiny hexagonal indentations are etched into the urethane epidermis.

The report suggests a projected medical application would be covering robotic hands used in remote-teleoperated breast exams. However, we at SexRobot.com see an application of human hands touching the robotic skin breasts.

Via: Xinhuanet.com

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Author David Levy has worked in the field of Artificial Intelligence since graduating from St. Andrews University, Scotland, in 1967, and is the author of the book, Robots Unlimited: Life in a Virtual Age. Read his recent interview here .

The trend of robotics research and development, from industrial robots to service robots to companion and carer robots for the elderly, has as its logical continuation the design and construction of partner robots, sufficiently human-like and sufficiently appealing in various ways to take on the role of a partner in a relationship with a human being. This trend immediately raises many questions relating to humans loving and being loved by robots, treating robots as life partners and being similarly treated by them, marrying robots and having sex with robots.

Love and Marriage with Robots

Nowadays scientists, psychologists and philosophers are asking, more and more often, questions such as “Can robots fall in love?” Such questions might seem to be unnecessary because love is an experience peculiar to warm-blooded mammals—anything in a programmed entity is merely a simulation. But if a robot exhibits all the same signs and behaviours of a human in love, and if it professes its love for a human, then surely, so far as the recipient is concerned, their robot is indeed in love with them, whatever being in love means to a robot.

An even more challenging psychological, sociological and ethical question for the future is “Will people fall in love with robots?” I believe the answer to be an unqualified “Yes”, even though this idea will be abhorrent to many people. But consider the millions of people who develop extremely strong emotional attachments to their pet animals, and the rapidity with which millions developed emotional attachments to their Tamgotchis, both of which are indications as to the strength of emotion that can be felt by humans for non-humans, and as to the feelings that millions will develop for robots when they are more emotionally sophisticated than both animals and Tamagotchis.

Let us now consider this notion, that people can fall in love with a robot. In the past, before the Internet was invented, many people had pen friends with whom they exchanged letters. Through this type of correspondence some people developed long-term friendships, occasionally falling in love with their pen friends and agreeing to marriage even without having met them. Moderately unusual, yes, but only moderately. In recent years this phenomenon has been replicated countless times in cyberspace romances. It is easy to understand how two people can fall in love on the basis of their communications with each other, even without physical contact. Much of the emotional basis for love is based on your feelings about your partner’s character, their personality, their interests, ideas, how your partner talks (or writes) to you, . . . so many things that can be communicated verbally.
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There has been much talk recently of robots and ethics—well, in particular—sex with robots and ethics. And beyond ethics, as robots become more life-like, legal issues.

As it is right now, we don’t have real “sex robots” so there’s really no ethical or legal questions to answer. But, with the exponential acceleration of technology, human-like robots will emerge soon enough.

What people do now to their own beautiful, silicone dolls is their own business, as it should be. But at what point along the evolution of robots do we start applying human laws of protection to them? An absurd thought? I don’t think so.

Let’s make it simple to understand, and move forward to the time when robots will respond with appropriate human reactions to the input they receive. Not only will they respond with pleasure when they are having sex with you, but they will respond with pain if you hurt them. For all intents and purposes, they will seem real to you. So inflicting pain to, or performing illegal activities with them, will cross the lines of ethics. But should it cross the lines of the law?

Robots will move towards mimicking humans, in all their senses. And humans will evolve toward robots, beginning with implants, limbs and finally brain augmentations and complete replacements. What will be robotic and what will be human?

Given this meeting of evolutions, here are some specific examples of questions to ponder:

Can a robot doll owner film the torture and “murder” of a sex robot and place it on the internet? Sell it as a robot snuff film?

Should it be a crime to have sex with a 12 year old robot? Should it be a crime simply to make such a doll?

Can you kick around your robot puppy?

Can a robot be made into a sex slave, forced to live in the closet, chained up, when not in use.

All these things are illegal with humans, but legal with the “robots” or “dolls” of today.

I think it’s obvious to most rational people that as the distinction between robots and humans blur, these should be treated just as are crimes against humans. And, I think we can also agree, that with the today’s primitive technology, no such actions should yet be criminal. So the question is, at what point do we criminalize these actions? How do you define this point in their evolution?

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Roboticists recently held a meeting in Genoa, put on by the European Robotics Research Network (Euron), in which they examined potential problems that could arise as robots become smarter. Among the comments:

“Security, safety and sex are the big concerns,” said Henrik Christensen, a member of the Euron ethics group. How far should robots be allowed to influence people’s lives? How can accidents be avoided? Can deliberate harm be prevented? And what happens if robots turn out to be sexy?

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Other dilemmas may arrive sooner than we think, says Christensen. “People are going to be having sex with robots within five years,” he said. So should limits be set on the appearance, for example, of such robotic sex toys?

And why should this concern us? Sounds like good news to me. Make them sexy and make then soon.

Times Online Original article

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Here’s a strangely erotic short video entitled “The compelling story of the day-to-day life of Lizzy The Lesbian Robot, Episode 1,” the story of a lonely robot girl and her journey to find one true love. I say strangely erotic because I don’t usually get turned on by metallic sex robots that look more like robots than females. But, there is something about this video, something about the music, that I find very sensual.

From the makers of Ghost in the Shell

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