Having read the title above, we ask you: how do you feel?
Titillated at the prospect or fearful for the little babies? Either way, if artificial intelligence researcher David Levy of the University of Maastricht is to be believed, we'll be consummating relationships with our
anatomically correct Roombas by mid-century. Ironically, even though the city of Maastricht sits in free-livin' Netherlands, Levy predicts that Massachusetts will be first to legalize human-robot marriage due to its liberal attitude toward same-sex marriages. He envisions those early man-machine marriages falling victim to the same cultural taboos affecting interracial marriages. However, just as those are accepted over time, so will committed robot-hookups be seen as "normal" as the practice becomes more common. According to Levy, "once you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot, and it was great!' appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon." Hear that
Digg users? The cure to nerdonic-celibacy is all up to you.
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posted Oct 16th 2007 3:05AM
Some of the Engadget readers now have a chance...as long as they live that long.
They have a chance to figure out that the best they can hope for by 2050 is rubber toy robots.
Dating real girls isn't *that* hard. In fact, I bet it's easier than having sex with those things above in the photo.
Who wants a real "please, not from behind" or "I don't swallow that shit" chick if you can have this ultimage non-nagging bots?
I'd better start saving now. :-)
Does the robot get half your stuff in a divorce?
hear*
I for one welcome our new overbearing wives.
Wives?
Am I the only one that thought about pimping these things?
Based on his analogy then, wouldn't Holland be the first since they allowed gay marriage way before the rest of the world did?
Anyway what kind of wacko writes this crap? Who is this David Levy guy? The name doesn't sound like a Dutch name...
If anything, there's lots of levees in the Netherlands.
What if there was a robot sex toy h4x that made them bite off your penis? Ouch. Here's to the future robots not running Windows.
Sex toy hax? Then the next Apple update will probably brick your "date".
Brings a whole new meaning to the Red Ring Of Death.....
how would that at all be enjoyable? some times listening to painful screams is just what you need. these robots cant feel pain...
I'm afraid that "nerdonic celibacy" will not be cured here. wanking a rubber toy is wanking a rubber toy, regardless of how complicated it is.
"But when a human dates a robot there is no purpose, only enjoyment"
HAH... purpose, in modern day relationships? Right.
tHATS MY CURRENT DATE STATUs MAN!
My first thought as well, but I spent the time to find a picture :)
http://simpsonovi.comics.cz/Futurama/popisy/3-15epizoda.jpg
I watched the episode when I read this, so really I had 20 minutes of moving pictures! Oh but I didn't post them.
"Oh no she's stuck in an infinite loop-- and he's an idiot! Well I guess that's love."
The one in the middle looks like she would be annoying as hell :P
LOL @ the left robot's mouth shape
Umm... those are "real girls"--sex dolls. Very expensive sex dolls. Look up "real girl" online (probably NSFW). You can have sex with them now, and apparently they're very realistic--but obviously they don't actually respond (move, yell).
Sex with robots? LOL! That's funny! I guess they will be making them with different personalities, dominatrix anyone?? Imagine a robot beating the crap out of you, How do you like that?
she'd probably end up cheating on you with a toaster,
Bring on the creation of Kidnappster along with hordes of killer lucy liu bots!!! (Futurama reference- for those who thought this was random) ^^
It's not like it was subtle. What I want to know is if you got the futurama reference posted before yours...
shit!
i will be 70
ahhh well if im not married by then i guess ill be down for whatever
True'dat.
What are YOU complaining about, youngster? I'll be 80!! Fortunately, I'm already married with three kids, but who knows if she'll kick me out before I'm 80, assuming that I'm not providing nutrients to the dirt-dwelling critters by then. :)
I wonder where you plug the power cord on these...
no power cord required; it runs on protein ;)
very very salty protein
You know what it tastes like?!
uh, its a pretty common conception semen tastes like salt. infact, one day in foods class i had a girl tell me that her bread dough she was making(yes white bread dough) that was raw, just before it was going to be baked tastest exactly like semen.
if you didnt know that, then well... im not sure. perhaps watch shows like southpark occasionaly.
cut the f*cking BS, if you are a guy you HAVE tasted your own semen at one point or another.
^^^weird
I find it very amusing when people confuse what they wish the future is, and what it will be.
This guy, figured robots with such complex AI and body should be possible by 2050, hence they'll be sex toys.
Right. Well, think about it. Those things will probably cost a fortune, and their creators will be able to use it for far more profitable purposes than doing sex toys.
Furthermore: marriage with robots? Why on Earth would a robot want to have *sex*? Why does he suppose an AI will fully copy human intelligence, down to those very biological instincts. It's nonsense.
"Those things will probably cost a fortune, and their creators will be able to use it for far more profitable purposes than doing sex toys."
You know, I bet someone, somewhere in the 1950s said something very similar about computers!
I really was starting to think that this was an article from the Onion
"You know, I bet someone, somewhere in the 1950s said something very similar about computers!"
I don't see someone selling sex computers, do you? The fact a computer will display any picture indiscriminately doesn't mean someone will sit down 40 years from now and make a billion dollar sex doll.
The sex "peripherals" for computers I saw here and there were very funny though. I'll be surprised if they sold more than a couple hundred of each of those.
Yes at some point in the indefinite future I do suspect computers will have will on their own and we can grant them rights and so on.
Let's say somewhere around 2300-2400.
2050 is a laughable target for this kind of event.
"The internet is for pr0n"
Just because the hot life like robots weren't built for sex does not mean they won't be used for sex.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever read in my entire life, for so many reasons that are so self-explanatory that writing them out would be, for all practical reasons, a rewrite of the original article.
Do you Rizzon take this robot as you beloved wife? - Yes
And do you C324D32-12/2213/b take this man as you beloved husband? - BIIIIP BIIIIP!
Damn those researchers!! They are using them now!
You have to be kidding, this sort of stuff shouldn't be published. Robots are not and will never be alive. The law would never allow marriage to something that you can upgrade or throw away whenever you feel like it. Stick to real humans and real news
Why do they need to build the WHOLE robot anyway? Only a couple "ports" will do.
If these things are equipped with a volume control and the ability to mow the lawn then we're onto something monumental.
I, for one, welcome our muted yardwork performing robotic sex kitten overlords.
I, for one, welcome our muted yardwork performing robotic sex kitten overlords.
illegal mexicansn watch out...
I think this is gross.
These dolls already exist. www.realdoll.com
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Right. Well, think about it. Those things will probably cost a fortune
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Surely not more than a wife.
please take note of your incorrent usage of Massachusetts lingo. 'Wicked' is used as a modifier, not standalone. i.e. It's wicked hot in here.
I can see it now:
"Hey! We oppose the use of the derogatory racial slur "Robot" and prefer to be called Android Americans or Gynoid Americans."
That's how it will start.
What disturbs me is how I thought those dolls were real women for a moment. Not because They're life like, but because actual porn stars surgerize themselves so far into the uncanny valley that they don't look like people anymore.
they've obviously never seen
"Electro-gonorrhea; the noisy killer"
XD
I don't think people should necessarily be that disgusted or non-believing of this potential. Would I use a "sex toy doll" now....no, thanks, but no.
HOWEVER, if you look to Battlestar Galactica as a possible reference point (yes, I'm a geek...you wanna take this outside?), if "robots" eventually are advanced enough that they undergo some form of biological/cybernetic evolution of their own, this might not seem that far fetched.
At a certain point, a robotic intelligence could become indistinguishable from a human intelligence, even to itself. Humans think they're intelligent without any other entity telling them as much, so once a robot can consider itself intelligent without being told that, they'll be fundamentally no different than humans....at least in intelligence.
Hold on a sec while I reboot my wife... She blue-screened....
i'm a little bothered (offended, maybe?) that robot-human sex/marriage is being compared to same sex marriage.
honestly. come on.
This guy should start producing robotic porn. He'll make so much more money.
i could not care less. if they had one in the store now i would buy it, it would be my ultimate alarm clock! it would wake me up every morning with a big long great french kiss on my... control stick.
RoboHoe.....LOL
"envisions those early man-machine marriages falling victim to the same cultural taboos affecting interracial marriages"
i think that comparing a will-less, soulless robot to an interracial human couple is outrageously insulting.
i think that comparing a will-less, soulless robot to an interracial human couple is outrageously insulting.
oh, your a child of the 90s i get it. you werent here to understand racism pre-barney and friends
...uh, what?
I'll admit i am a kid of the 80s, but what the fuck are you talking about?
you seriously... you think that...
oh screw it. you're an idiot. if you can't see the difference between a human and an object, then it's really not worth having this conversation with you. (and if you DON'T see how equating the two is in poor taste, then you really are an idiot.)
humans are just objects even more annoying.
"Massachusetts will be first to legalize human-robot marriage due to its liberal attitude toward same-sex marriages."
Because treating all humans as equals is the same as treating a robot like it's a human?
this writer is a douchebag.
i'll so screw the middle one haha
Fellas, fellas.....
We already have the first step in this process:
http://www.VirtualSexMachine.com
And you can Buy it RIGHT NOW.
Animatronics will be coming later....and I'm NOT kidding.