Sunday, April 30, 2017

The race to build the world’s first sex robot

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).

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