8 thoughts on “A New S3xual Aid Breakthrough?”

  1. Rushing? C’mon. I read Isaac Asimov as a kid, and watched The Jetsons. The robots were supposed to be here and walking our dogs for us years ago, if not decades. As far as robots and AI are concerned, the future is at best crawling or maybe doing some kind of bizarre drunken random walk towards us.

    Besides, why would a robot sex partner be any less trouble than the flesh and blood thing? I don’t believe it. It will be pissed if you don’t call often enough, or at the right time, get cranky if you don’t remember all those little things that make a robot sex toy’s life bright — an affectionate hug while putting it away in the charging cradle, an extra unnecessary press of the I love you button on the remote control, the occasional offer to be turned on not to bone but just to hold hands and talk, I mean really talk, about where your relationship is going.

    This whole research effort at producing robots that mimic human beings is wrong-headed. If we liked human beings so much, it’s not like they’re hard to find, or make more of. What we want is robots that are not like people. Less flaky, for example. Unlikely to vote for a Democrat. Will laugh at the same story no matter how many times told.

  2. How many of you have sat screaming at your computers while a Blue Screen of Death ate a fifty page report you’d been working on for hours? And now here come sex robots… I can only imagine the kind of questions tech support for those babies is going to have to deal with…

    And I agree on the wrong-headedness of making robots to mimic human beings. Real human beings are irritating enough — who wants fake ones added to the mix?

  3. Could be, Charles. But don’t forget the first robosex customers would undoubtably be men, the male libido being what it is. So really it would be Woman of Steel, Man of Kleenex.

    You know how your dad taught you, while working on a car, to be very very careful putting your fingers into operating steel machinery? Now imagine a more…valuable appendage.

    I wouldn’t touch one of the damned things. Not without an adamantium condom, at least.

  4. Insert Terminator reference here.

    I was just thinking, Skynet had the wrong incentives for getting its human slaves to work.

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