Sex between married couples will increasingly be saved for special occasions as robots step in to satisfy everyday needs, experts have predicted.
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) devices in the bedroom will be socially normal within 25 years, an international robotics conference has heard.
Comparing sex robots to the rise of the ebook, Dr Trudy Barber, a pioneer in the impact of technology on sexual intercourse, said the machines would enable people to greater appreciate “the real thing”.
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Speaking yesterday at the International Congress of Love and Sex with Robotics, Dr Barber said people’s growing immersion in technology means it was only a matter of time before it takes a mainstream role in sex.
“It could be that we are so busy with our lives, we are so embedded in our technological narrative that the idea of engaging in long-distance sex and robot sex is actually a natural process in our evolutionary cycle,” she said.
“I think what will happen is that they will make real-time relationships more valuable and exciting.”
However, AI experts have been warning that a generation of adolescents risk[B] “losing their virginity” to humanoid devices and growing up with an unrealistic conception of sex.
