She is the frontrunner in the race to create the world’s first commercially available sex robot. In his 2007 book, Love and Sex with Robots, the British artificial intelligence engineer David Levy predicted that sex robots would have therapeutic benefits. Cardenas is the engineer behind Android Love Dolls, making what he claims are “the first fully functional sex robot dolls”. “I am interested in knowing what features the community would like to see in a sex robot doll,” he wrote. A fully functional android robot would take a couple of years to finish – a sex robot is accessible now.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2017 04:30 UTC