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Initech

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Sat Apr 13, 2013, 02:16 PM Apr 2013

Yes, People Have Admitted To Fantasizing About Having Sex With Robots

A provocative new poll shows that Americans have little trouble imagining a future full of personal service robots -- at least when it comes to robots tasked with cleaning our homes, driving our cars, and even helping fight our wars.

But the HuffPost/YouGov poll shows that we're a bit squeamish about bots in especially personal roles, such as caring for elderly people or replacing a human sex partner. These findings are consistent with research conducted by Stanford University's Dr. Leila Takayama, an expert in robot-human relationships.

"We've been finding that people prefer the idea of working with robots instead of having robots work in place of people," Takayama told The Huffington Post in an email.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/robot-sex-poll-americans-robotic-lovers-servants-soldiers_n_3037918.html


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Yes, People Have Admitted To Fantasizing About Having Sex With Robots (Original Post) Initech Apr 2013 OP
Shoot. That's one of the two or three major premises of 'Westworld'. Aristus Apr 2013 #1
Ah, come on libodem Apr 2013 #2
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