Artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands recently completed (Oct 12, 2007) his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships.
His work reminds me of “The Caves of Steel“, from Asimov, where Elijah Baley, the human detective, and R. Daneel Olivaw his number 2 robot detective, preludes in 1954 the story of an human-robot relationship bearing a great likelihood to what Levy to day proposes … (I quote) “In his thesis, “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners,” [he] conjectures that robots will become so human-like in appearance, function and personality that many people will fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them…”It may sound a little weird, but it isn’t,” Levy said. “Love and sex with robots are inevitable.”
To day, (I quote), “There are companies that already sell realistic sex dolls, “and it’s just a matter of adding some electronics to them to add some vibration,” he said, or endowing the robots with a few audio responses. “That’s fairly primitive in terms of robotics, but the technology is already there.”..
An article from Reuters, “Japan’s lonely hearts turn to dolls for sex, company” provide further insight. (I quote).”Real love is hard to find for one Japanese man, who has transferred his affection and desires to dozens of plastic sex dolls.
When the 45-year-old, who uses a pseudonym of Ta-Bo, returns home, it’s not a wife or girlfriend who await him, but a row of dolls lined up neatly on his sofa.
Each has a name. Ta-Bo often watches television with his toys before bathing them, powdering them so that their skin feels more human, dressing them in lingerie and then taking them to bed.
“A human girl can cheat on you or betray you sometimes, but these dolls never do those thing. They belong to me 100 percent,” says the engineer who has spent more than 2 million yen ($16,000) over the past decade on the dolls
“Sometimes it takes too much time before I can have sex with the person I meet. But with these dolls, it’s just a matter of a click of the mouse. With one click, they are delivered to you.”, see more here.
Now Levy…” argues that psychologists have identified roughly a dozen basic reasons why people fall in love, “and almost all of them could apply to human-robot relationships. For instance, one thing that prompts people to fall in love are similarities in personality and knowledge, and all of this is programmable. Another reason people are more likely to fall in love is if they know the other person likes them, and that’s programmable too.”…
This may be the remedy for lonely man and women by letting them ‘buy a women’ embodied in “dolls”, programed to their special affinities and in the future with new legislation to married them and live in a new family form.
(I quote)…”My forecast [says Levy] is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots,” …” “Massachusetts is more liberal than most other jurisdictions in the United States and has been at the forefront of same-sex marriage,” Levy said. “There’s also a lot of high-tech research there at places like MIT.”,
And finally, possible pro and con of getting married to a robot are perhaps,
(I quote)…”In a marriage or other relationship, one partner could be jealous or consider it infidelity if the other used a robot,” Levy said. “But who knows, maybe some other relationships could welcome a robot. Instead of a woman saying, ‘Darling, not tonight, I have a headache,’ you could get ‘Darling, I have a headache, why not use your robot?’ “, see here.
The last three pictures are sculptures and come from here.
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korzac at 08:23 on October 28th, 2007
korzac at 02:59 on October 29th, 2007
I watched an television show “Sin City” where all the rage in Japan are “Comfort houses” in Japan that cater to bashful Japanese gentlemen whose fantasies are to have sex with dolls similar to these, though not as robotic, but just as acrobatic. These dolls, prices ranging from $5,000 to $30,000 dollars US are dressed in various outfits ranging from French Maid to Schoolgirl uniforms and the price for an hour with your Latex beauty? About $200.00 an hour and up depending on your taste and fetish. For that price it was stated to one customer sitting on the bed beside his latex horizontal schoolgirl that you could hire a real live prostitute next door, to which the sheepish twenty something customer responded in some unintelligable gibberish as he caressed his prostrate willing “Love Doll”, indicating to the Sin City interviewer that perhaps this interview was over. Apparently sanitization is not an issue as removable clothing, wigs, mouth pieces and various orfices are are removed/replaced or just flushed out and sterilized, leading many paying and willing Clients to believe ‘Sloppy Seconds” are a thing of the past.
I tried to find the Sin City Show on Google without success. What I did find below is a MacLeans link for Japanese Love Dolls and the growing trend to Sex without Mutual Intimacy. What a warped world we live in today, and there are actually Live people willing to pay for all this! see here.
korzac at 04:29 on October 29th, 2007
mrjones at 23:01 on November 3rd, 2007
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The Movie ‘Lars and the Real Girl’, presenting a funny and affectionate story… I quote…”Lars and the Real Girl is another really different film, especially different for up-and-comer Ryan Gosling… . Gosling plays the extremely troubled Lars, who is so lonely that he resorts to buying a sex doll online. After he introduces ‘Bianca’ to the family, he keeps adding on little details here and there about her life and everything, and the whole town just plays along. The premise and script are especially good, along with the fun little cast and a really funny ending. This is just such a cute and easy movie to like, and at times you even feel like the doll is alive. Lars and the Real Girl never disappoints—it’s one of the best and strangest films I’ve seen all year.”….see more here.
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korzacsol 
This realistic Sex Dools like such as a real women.
It is amazing.
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WOW! it is direct as alive!
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i like the idea,
i think it will help people to be more satisfied,
many people on low income cannot support a real woman, we love them they are wonderffull
but in the real world, woman have needs and desires, like nice place to live, money ect ect.
it is sad, one one hand, but on the other lucky for men.
many men work long hours, have no time for
building intimate relationships, many relationships
go kaput, because the man is always working hard,
to pay for everything,
today, the old way of thinking is still out there,
the man needs to support his woman,
there are many woman who understand,
but there are many more who look at all the nice things which money can buy…
and the many beautiful woman ,
are looking for an ideal partner, ( who has money)
its not only money. its just a means to make thing work.
if two people work together they can build a relationship with little money.
but so many men and woman, think of material wealth, as the no ! 1 factor,
lets face it, life is not easy not for woman or men.
but if you are lonely and want a beautiful woman,
your not going to find one unless you have a big bank ballance, or the means to support them.
so what is the result?
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Everywhere there are beautiful real women. Not all beautiful real women want only money, they want friendship love and intimacy and that is in the reach of almost every man. But if one feels lonely, then a doll as surrogate is perhaps a solution.. but the real thing is always better because “it is not a solution” it is life itself.
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these will probably be very big in china were some areas have male populations and are very lonely.
too bad women cant be satisfied in the same way.
a vibrator is enough for some, but not most.
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i really like these dolls
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I cant wiat until thet sex bots come out, I just think that it will be very uncomfortable when i try to go get a bank loan for one.
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Hello,
Good Day,am malenzi osei and i will like to know if you do sell (a human-sized android showed off …
468 x 348 – 47k – jpg)If yes do email me back with the models and price ranges on what you do sell to enable me to know how much i will like to order.More over i will like you to know that am shipping this items to my company in West Africa(Ghana)and i will have them pick by a freight company.Once again let me know if you do accept credit card as a method of payment.Thank you and hope to hear from you with my order request.
Best Regards,
malenzi osei(Owner
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Hi Malensi Osei,
I would like to help you. But I only wrote on sex dolls love as an social phenomena. I am not selling anything. But look on Google you will find more than you need..
Cheers
Shlomo
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well i must say ,beautiful, a real woman could feel very jeaulos about thes dolls .i think they fascinate attract men .they never age, but they don,t have feelings it could end up that they are like toys not human ,after a while it can be very boring with them,they can.t speak .well not comparing with a real woman m.dumont
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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!
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Hi AlexM,
Thanks for reading my posts and adding me to your RSS feeds.
I looked at your blog : good and interesting but I can not read Russian…
BTW, I ‘borrowed’ from you the Georgian-Russian caricature…
Cheers
Shlomo.
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Amazing
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a hope give me is doll free, because doll is my dream….
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ummmmmmmm
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Hello
I want the same
With thanks
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Howard Stern raved it was “The Best SEX I’ve ever had!” Why wouldn’t you want the best sex of your life with your fantasy girl? While it is true most of the JennoMates sell over 6K. Look at the Realdoll website, but if you want to know where to buy them for $2,700? Call Keith at 512.739.5902
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