Sex with Massachusetts Robots by 2050 -- wicked!

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.

[Via TG Daily]

[Nubaeus @ Oct 16th 2007 3:12AM]

Some of the Engadget readers now have a chance...as long as they live that long.

[suv4x4 @ Oct 16th 2007 5:29AM]

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.

[Dr.Drane @ Oct 16th 2007 6:58AM]

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. :-)

[Mathew @ Oct 16th 2007 1:53PM]

Does the robot get half your stuff in a divorce?

[EngadgetFanBoi @ Oct 16th 2007 3:15AM]

hear*

[rTwelve @ Oct 16th 2007 3:15AM]

I for one welcome our new overbearing wives.

[blade417 @ Oct 16th 2007 8:07AM]

Wives?
Am I the only one that thought about pimping these things?

[Young @ Oct 16th 2007 3:17AM]

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...

[rTwelve @ Oct 16th 2007 3:28AM]

If anything, there's lots of levees in the Netherlands.

[waiownsyou @ Oct 16th 2007 3:19AM]

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.

[Waruwaru @ Oct 16th 2007 4:23AM]

Sex toy hax? Then the next Apple update will probably brick your "date".

[boing @ Oct 16th 2007 4:28AM]

Brings a whole new meaning to the Red Ring Of Death.....

[bombastinator @ Oct 16th 2007 3:36AM]

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.

[Spartacus @ Oct 16th 2007 3:37AM]

"But when a human dates a robot there is no purpose, only enjoyment"

[Reader @ Oct 16th 2007 3:53AM]

HAH... purpose, in modern day relationships? Right.

[webon @ Oct 16th 2007 4:11AM]

tHATS MY CURRENT DATE STATUs MAN!

[Paul @ Oct 16th 2007 8:40AM]

My first thought as well, but I spent the time to find a picture :)

http://simpsonovi.comics.cz/Futurama/popisy/3-15epizoda.jpg

[Spartacus @ Oct 16th 2007 4:45PM]

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."

[jessy @ Oct 16th 2007 3:38AM]

how would that at all be enjoyable? some times listening to painful screams is just what you need. these robots cant feel pain...

[anonymous @ Oct 16th 2007 3:54AM]

The one in the middle looks like she would be annoying as hell :P

[waiownsyou @ Oct 16th 2007 4:32AM]

LOL @ the left robot's mouth shape

[Nora @ Oct 16th 2007 9:39AM]

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).

[Dime @ Oct 16th 2007 4:36AM]

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?

[boing @ Oct 16th 2007 4:37AM]

she'd probably end up cheating on you with a toaster,

[Charles Han @ Oct 16th 2007 4:42AM]

Bring on the creation of Kidnappster along with hordes of killer lucy liu bots!!! (Futurama reference- for those who thought this was random) ^^

[Spartacus @ Oct 16th 2007 6:29AM]

It's not like it was subtle. What I want to know is if you got the futurama reference posted before yours...

[luke @ Oct 16th 2007 4:58AM]

shit!
i will be 70
ahhh well if im not married by then i guess ill be down for whatever

[Grizz @ Oct 16th 2007 7:48AM]

True'dat.

[John B @ Oct 16th 2007 9:52AM]

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. :)

[tomijlahtinen @ Oct 16th 2007 5:02AM]

I wonder where you plug the power cord on these...

[lettcco @ Oct 16th 2007 5:08AM]

no power cord required; it runs on protein ;)

[jessy @ Oct 16th 2007 5:18AM]

very very salty protein

[AlexP @ Oct 16th 2007 8:31AM]

You know what it tastes like?!

[jessy @ Oct 16th 2007 9:36AM]

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.

[whatevas @ Oct 17th 2007 4:32AM]

cut the f*cking BS, if you are a guy you HAVE tasted your own semen at one point or another.

[jessy @ Oct 19th 2007 2:03PM]

^^^weird

[suv4x4 @ Oct 16th 2007 5:21AM]

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.

[Cherry2000 @ Oct 16th 2007 7:45AM]

"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

[suv4x4 @ Oct 16th 2007 9:14AM]

"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.

[Spartacus @ Oct 16th 2007 4:54PM]

"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.

[Deuz Augustine @ Oct 16th 2007 5:42AM]

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.

[Rizzon @ Oct 16th 2007 7:52AM]

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!

[Manu Vajpai @ Oct 16th 2007 8:11AM]

Damn those researchers!! They are using them now!

[Alex Kirby @ Oct 16th 2007 8:22AM]

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

[spyboy @ Oct 16th 2007 8:51AM]

Why do they need to build the WHOLE robot anyway? Only a couple "ports" will do.

[cptripps @ Oct 16th 2007 8:59AM]

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.

[jessy @ Oct 16th 2007 9:36AM]

I, for one, welcome our muted yardwork performing robotic sex kitten overlords.


illegal mexicansn watch out...

[Philometalist @ Oct 16th 2007 9:14AM]

I think this is gross.

[John @ Oct 16th 2007 9:37AM]

Quote:
Right. Well, think about it. Those things will probably cost a fortune
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Surely not more than a wife.

[Brian @ Oct 16th 2007 11:42AM]

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.