Advances in robotic computing power, the ability to recognize voices and images, and machine learning could he... Read MoreHollywood sci-fi movies have often imagined what it would be to live in a world where robots and humans pursued relationships with each other, included a possibly sexual one.
Researchers at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, posed this question to 57 males and 43 in the US in a study
Researchers at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, posed this question to 57 males and 43 in the US in a study
about sexbots. More than two-thirds of men said they would give sex robots try. About two-thirds of women in the same study say they would not try a sex robot. Such research has huge implications beyond whether humanity ends up using robots for sexual satisfaction — it can also reveal gender differences in how people view modern human relationships.
"I think it's important to realize that sex robots and companion robots are all instances of social robots that have an effect on people," says Matthias Scheutz, a computer scientist at Tufts University. "Especially when it comes to the potential of these machines to cause emotional harm to humans."
Scheutz and his colleague at Tufts University had people rank answers to a wide variety of questions on a 7-point scale with 1 meaning "completely inappropriate" and 7 meaning "completely appropriate".
Men and women diverged in their "appropriate" versus "inappropriate" ratings for the case of using sex robots to practice abstinence. On the other hand, both women and men generally agreed that using sex robots was more appropriate than hiring a human prostitute. They also agreed on sex robots being appropriate for use by disabled people and for reducing the risk of sexually transmitted diseases.
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