"We accept that, yes, there will be robotic sex toys..." Says Professor Brooks
The rise of sex robots and pleasure machines
Pleasure machines ... Ashley Scott and Jude Law playing robotic prostitutes in AI t; / Amblin Entertainment
Australian-born Prof Brooks, former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said it was inevitable, and there was precedent, that such technology would be used for sexual purposes.
"Every technology that we've had, there has been a sexual driver of it," he said.
"I mean, that's certainly true of photographs in the 19th century; and home video players were really driven by sex; and of course the web has been a major source of sex.
"Yeah, there will be (sexbots) but it is not specific to robots per se."
Prof Brooks doesn't see the sexbots arriving any time soon.
"There are two versions of it, I suppose," he said.
"We accept that, yes, there will be robotic sex toys, remote presence sex where someone is controlling a robot and stuff.
"But there's also been some more outrageous stuff (predicted) – where people marry robots."
However not everyone thinks the idea of human-robot relations is so outrageous.
"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," artificial intelligence researcher David Levy, who completed his PhD on the subject of human-robot relationships, told LiveScience.
Yes, you heard right! Don't be afraid, let us accept our sexual-robotic-dominators/dominatrix's! Bring it on I say!
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