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Sex robots or sexbots are embodied, humanoid, robotic and full-body sex dolls that expose human-like movement and behavior, sometimes with some form of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
In fact, sex robots are a technical evolution of the well-known sex doll and incorporate all sex doll functions, but additionally they have more advanced options than sex dolls.
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You’ll find many levels of technical sophistication and a variety of preprogrammed “personalities” (and the respective price tags to it), but in general we could say that sex robots expose interactive features through speech, (sexual) movements, exhibiting emotions, socializing, making facial expressions, and/or responding to touch and instructions.
The rise of AI technology increasingly enables sex robots to learn, and to adapt their behavior to the personal wishes and characteristics of their owner. Mind that most types of sex robots are feminine (fembots), although male sex robots (malebots) are on the rise.
Sex robots are typically used for (sexual) recreational use at home, but there are some commercial experiments around the world that involve the establishment of brothels that offer sex dolls and sex robots for sexual intercourse (i.e. surrogate prostitutes) instead of in-person, real human sex workers.
Nonetheless, the creation of sex robots is a relatively new phenomenon and still heavily under development. There is also quite some polemic and controversy about the ethics surrounding humanoid sex robots, with, for instance, concerns about the machine-human relationships, stereotyping, the effects of sexual intercourse and companionship with robots (i.e. the future of intimate relationships), and female dehumanization.
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For instance, some researchers think that sex robots will have positive effects for people, such as social companionship that combats loneliness and sexual frustration, therapeutic value as in to deal with past traumatic sexual or relational experiences, means to safe sexual exploration, increased pleasure and joy in life, and increased sexual and relational satisfaction for individuals and for couples.
On the other hand, there are voices that warn against the risk of augmented objectification of and violence against women, the implications of the lack of mutual consent and the submissiveness in human-humanoid relationships, and the effects of unrealistic beauty and body standards.
There are also visions that the humanoid robots of the future will be rather multifunctional, that is, that they will be able to assist in domestic tasks (cleaning, cooking, etc.), provide elderly care or look after children, provide conversational companionship, and provide sexual services, among performing other tasks.
At any rate, the emotional and social implications of the use of humanoid sex robots are still unclear. Although some predict it will be perfectly normal for women and men alike to engage in lovemaking with sex robots in the near future, or even that people will have more sex with sex robots than with real humans, these are yet only suppositions which only the future can give us definite answers to.
