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Boffin says robots will be shag toys

by on28 September 2009

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Sod the technology, literally

 

A robotics experts claims that robots of the future would be used for sexual purposes. US robotics scientist Professor Rodney Brooks, who is the former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said he had no reason to doubt that the technology would have 'sexual drivers'.

He said that every technology that humanity has come up with has had a sexual driver which has made it popular. Well, other than the wheel, the plough, and the bacon slicer we guess. Actually he was talking about the photograph and VHS technology.

Brooks is now a founder and former chief technical officer of lucrative US company iRobot. Brooks said that that shagbots will be a long time coming, which would be part of their charm in some cases. He said that there will be robotic sex toys, remote presence sex where someone is controlling a robot and stuff.

He tends to shove all this into the distant future, which is more than AI researcher David Levy, who completed his PhD on the subject of human-robot relationships. He , told LiveScience, "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 in a magazine like Cosmo, I'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon."

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