Forecast: Sex and Marriage With Robots by 2050

FOXNews.com ^ | October 15, 2007 | Charles Q. Choi

[NCDragon]

Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows.

"My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience.

Levy recently completed his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships, covering many of the privileges and practices that generally come with marriage as well as outside of it.

At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, "but once you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot, and it was great!' appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon," Levy said.

[MNJohnnie]

The way some of my coworkers talk about their spouses, they all ready have done this.

[Greg F]

Fox News. Is it sweeps week that they’ve broken out stories on robot sex?

[RandallFlagg]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1911234/posts

[NCDragon]

Ooops! I dropped the “s” on robot(s) in the search. My bad.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

“Is it sweeps week that they’ve broken out stories on robot sex?”

Sure gives a whole new meaning to the term “screwing”

[RandallFlagg]

Mehh. Don’t worry about it. I’m not anything close to a net nanny.

[Huck]

Yeah, but why marry? Why not just program it to not mind if you play around?

[DonaldC]

If a robot can look like that chick on Andromeda, I’m all for it! lol

[Parmenio]

Are they going to build new trans-gender robots or are those going to be retrofitted?

[Gorzaloon]

Human Nature being what it is, I suspect that most of the Beta releases will be pimped out leased or rented.

[RandallFlagg]

I was thinking more like the babes on Battlestar Galactica.

[tumblindice]

“Meet my new robo-babe, dude—Mrs. `Babe-braham TD Lincoln.”

[Greg F]

Sexy!

[domenad]

Nobody here ever say "Invasion of the Humanoids?" For shame!

"You say my sister is in repoire with a clicker, you bet I'll kill ya!"

[Izzy Dunne]

Yeah, but the robots will pass a law against it.

[Diogenesis]

They got the state right. Massachusetts already allows marriages to horses and simple machinery like toasters.

[Aquinasfan]

You have to be well educated to be this stupid. This kind of stupidity just doesn’t come naturally.

[whd23]

"Levy recently completed his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships, covering many of the privileges and practices that generally come with marriage as well as outside of it."

You've got to be kidding me. Do they offer degrees in human-socket wrench relationships as well?

[Piquaboy]

Been there, done that.