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  • Only 9% Are Honest Enough to Admit They’d Do It with a Sex Robot

    Over the past few years, humanoid robot technology has gotten better and better at, well, making robots seem more human. We’re talking the look, the feel, the movements, and the AI. And this technology is only going to get better in the coming decades.

    Of course, if there’s anything we can count on humanity to do, it’s sexualize things. And naturally (unnaturally?), the evolution of androids means that eventually, people are going to start having sex with robots. Duh.

    It’s not like this isn’t already happening, but the future could open up so many more opportunities for robot sexy times. The Huffington Post and YouGov recently conducted a poll about Americans’ attitudes toward the future of robots, and our interactions with them.

    And the results concerning sex robots tip my bullshit meter all the way to maximum bullshittery.

    When asked if they would use a sex robot for its (his/her’s?) designed purpose, only 9% said yes. Nine. As in less than one in ten. Ok, sure.

    18% said that they think sex robots will be available by 2030.

    Last year, a New Zealand study published in Futures magazine painted an interesting picture of the pay-for-sex world in the next few decades. Researchers envision a version of Amsterdam’s red light district that’s completely run by android prostitutes by the year 2050.

    “[They] are clean of sexual transmitted infections (STIs), not smuggled in from Eastern Europe and forced into slavery, the city council will have direct control over android sex workers controlling prices, hours of operations and sexual services,” they said.

    These sex robots could be fully customizable and offer a wider variant of body type, ethnicity, age, language, and various sexual features. In their future, it’s goodbye sex trade and hello clean, safe, sex robots.

    And there’s obviously no emotional toll to be taken on sex robots, that is of course until they become sentient. But we don’t have to worry about that for at least a few hundred years. Probably.

    HuffPost’s poll also asked about whether or not sex with a sexbot is considered cheating. 42% said that it would be. And the younger the respondent, the more likely they were to say it’s not cheating.

  • Sex Robots Get The NMA Treatment

    Last week was all about sex robots. Ok, maybe not all about sex robots, but the concept definitely grabbed the our attention after two Victoria University researchers published a paper detailing a possible future world where prostitution was largely the job of pleasurebots.

    They imagined Amsterdam in the year 2050, where the “sex tourism” industry no longer used real humans, but instead lifelike android sexbots. The paper proposed that such an “innovation” would help cut down on the exploitation of the human trafficking that is rampant in many parts of the globe. Not only that, but these sex robots would be manufactured with bacteria-resistant fiber, which would in theory reduce the instances of STDs.

    Since sex robots had their moment in the news cycle, it was only a matter of time until our favorite animators tackled the issue. Next Media Animation’s take on sex robots somehow involves the Burger King, a future president Malia Obama, and R2D2. Just like most of their videos, this adds a much-needed WTF element to the issue.

    Check it out below (maybe NSFW due to animated sex toy chucking):

    Of course, this isn’t the first time that NMA has put their spin on an emerging technology story. They’ve animated things like Google’s Motorola acquisition, new iPad rumors, and Facebook’s f8 conference.

    As far as the whole sex robots thing goes, do you think that it’s a realistic vision of the future? Could pleasure-seekers ever really be satisfied by a machine, no matter how human it may appear? Let us know what you think in the comments.