Coming soon: meet the wife, she’s a robot

20/6/2008

You will find robots, conversation partners, that will talk to you and you will get as much pleasure from it as talking to another human. I am sure of it

Human-robot relationships could become reality in less than 40 years, say boffins.

And they are not just talking about mechanical, robotic sex.

“I am talking about loving relationships about 40 years from now,” David Levy, author of the book Love + sex with robots, said at an international conference at the University of Maastricht in Holland.

“… when there are robots that have also emotions, personality, consciousness. They can talk to you, they can make you laugh. They can … say they love you just like a human would say ‘I love you’, and say it as though they mean it …”

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/coming-soon-meet-the-wife-shes-a- robot/2008/06/20/1213770901374.html