Posted on 09/14/2015 5:19:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Such a use of the technology is unnecessary and undesirable, said campaign leader Dr Kathleen Richardson.
Sex dolls already on the market are becoming more sophisticated and some are now hoping to build artificial intelligence into their products.
Those working in the field say that there is a need for such robots.
Dr Richardson, a robot ethicist at De Montfort University in Leicester, wants to raise awareness of the issue and persuade those developing sex robots to rethink how their technology is used.
"Sex robots seem to be a growing focus in the robotics industry and the models that they draw on - how they will look, what roles they would play - are very disturbing indeed," she told the BBC.
She believes that they reinforce traditional stereotypes of women and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical.
"We think that the creation of such robots will contribute to detrimental relationships between men and women, adults and children, men and men and women and women," she said.
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David Levy, author of the book Love and Sex with Robots, believes that there will be a huge market for dolls such as Roxxy and predicts that by 2050, intimate relationships between robots and humans will be commonplace.
"There is an increasing number of people who find it difficult to form relationships and this will fill a void. It is not demeaning to women any more than vibrators are demeaning," he told the BBC.
As such robots become more sophisticated and are able to simulate human behaviour, so the relationship with humans will become more complex, he thinks.
Dr Curran worries that society as a whole is ill-prepared for an age where sophisticated robotic companions are the norm.
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Yup, the ingredients are deposited in the mouth and the finished product is extruded from between the cheeks. Be very care you are running the correct program at the correct time.
Liberal women being as screechy as they are, even liberal men can't stand them.
So this will accelerate the liberal depopulation of the Earth allowing Christians to take it back.
Of course we'll also need the Terminator bots to eradicate the Jihadis, but they may be too busy with their AI camels.
The goats and chickens,maybe.The cows and horses just went about their business,after they stopped laughing of course.
Not what I had in mind.
Next up: Halal Goat robots.
If it has a beer tap and turns into a pizza at ten (I’m getting old, used to be midnight) than it’s perfect!
First they came for the sex bots, but i didn’t say anything because I didn’t own a sex bot, then they came for the snuggle pillows but i didn’t say anything because I didn’t have a snuggle pillow, then they came for the “back massagers” and it was too late, no one was left to complain....
The thing I like about a sexbot is it won’t demand that I struggle hold and talk to her for hours afterwards
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[ Next up: Halal Goat robots. ]
It would fix a lot of problems of diseases spreading from goat to jihadi to mutilated jihadi factory chattel.
Is it really any more perverse than same sex couples?
Ok, who’s the joker that put those two robots together,
now their batteries are dead.
>>The reality of the situation is that porn has driven home technology/media adoption for the last 40+ years, at least since the Betamax VCR. I don’t see any reason why home robotics should be any different.<<
[ You can bet the first use and the driver behind refinements of the holodeck will NOT be embedding in a “Dixon Hill” novel or looking at sunsets on the home world. ]
Holodeck Bio-Hazardous Waste Removal Technician is a growth industry....
Do they make a self cleaning model for the lazy?
Won’t be accused of rape.
Um...was ‘struggle’ a Freudian Slip?
:-)
-JT
I know 8^), I just couldn't stop myself.
I want a Petra Verkaik robot.
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