Virtually EVERYONE will want a sexbot, or at least the spin-off servant robot, so the pressure to develop them will be relentless:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/27/race-to-build-world-first-sex-robot
Regarding the critics at the end, just as cell phones, nuclear power and pretty much every other technology have changed society mostly for the better but also some for the worse, so to it will surely be with sex robots. Yeah, it's slavery...but it doesn't harm the slave in any way (until robots become sapient).
Technology is advancing at an exponential rate often called the "Law of Accelerating Returns." If futurist predictions prove correct, we'll have advanced molecular manufacturing by around 2025, and possibly the replacement of humanity by vastly advanced machines a decade or two later.
This is a chronicle of our journey to that future, one advancing technology article at a time. I post the more significant and interesting articles as I come across them.
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What robots mean for the environment
And now the disruption robots will likely cause, dropping the cost of labor down to perhaps as little as one cent per hour: https://youtu.be...
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http://www.sltrib.com/home/3898355-155/albuquerque-weighs-getting-more-solar-power
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"An experimental demonstration of a quantum calculation has shown that a single molecule can perform operations thousands of times fast...
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