[Jamestown1630]

Yes, well: Even when they are making a robot that is NOT for sex, but just to practice technology - it seems to always be styled Female.

That seems to say something interesting about the (predominantly) male engineers who build these things...

(And when you buy a GPS or other technological gizmo that talks at you, the voice is almost always female-sounding.)

This guy has apparently made a male one ‘in his own image’; but also a female:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRlwvLubFxg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD1CdjlrTBM

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Yes, well: Even when they are making a robot that is NOT for sex, but just to practice technology - it seems to always be styled Female.

Good point. I've noticed that too.

However, this article is about sex robots.