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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Sexbot ping for real
The goats, chickens, cows and horses must have complained.
Good luck with that Dr.
Oh no.....Another tool for our schools. Why use a banana when you can use “the real thing”.
Any truth to the rumor the Clinton Global Initative is a major research funding donor?
Them and every other person looking to become a billionaire I’d guess.
While they are at it they should call for a ban on porn on the Interwebz.
I am sure the success rate will be the same.
Can it be programmed to make sandwiches?
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.
I’ve said for a while there is a huge market for this just waiting in China, given the imbalance in the male/female population due to the one child policy and cultural drives for male offspring.
Maybe. But I want to see all the feminists that don’t have a man but do have stock in Duracell start the campaign to ban them. This chick seems to be the first shot of that revolution.
Is it really any more perverse than same sex couples? I am thinking no.
That all you got Robot? ;)
Or at least their union representatives.
>>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.
Realdoll are gonna go public at some point. And it will make Berkshire Hathaway stock look like a bargain when they combine their tech with that pic.
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