Sex Robots A Reality By 2050, Researchers Predict (VIDEO)

Researchers in New Zealand predict that sex robots like the ones envisioned in the Austin Powers movies will be a reality by 2050.

Human prostitutes could be a thing of the past by 2050, as more and more robots get pimped into prostitution.

That's the future envisioned by Michelle Mars and Ian Yeoman at Victoria University of Wellington, who have released a report suggesting that lifelike robots will be coming to a brothel near you.

Mars and Yeoman see lots of advantages to having "hoe-bots" doing the dirty work instead of humans, such as "commercial sex robots would be free of disease and would reduce the trafficking of real people," they told The Week.

Despite the fact that these hard-wired whores will suck up electricity as opposed to, er, never mind, the raunchy robot researchers say the idea isn't that shocking.

“Sex robots are absolutely inevitable. In fact, they already exist,” Mars told Business Insider. “Society has had relationships with machines and we continue to have increasingly intimate relationships with more and more sophisticated technologies."

For instance, there is "Roxxxy," an interactive doll costing between $7,000 to $9,000 that was unveiled at an adult entertainment expo in 2010, and, according to MSNBC.com, can be programmed with different personalities such as frigid Farrah and wild Wendy.

If you're the type of person who can't get used to the idea of getting kinky with an android, don't worry: There will still be human sex workers as well.

“Human prostitution will still be around. It’s the oldest profession and won’t be thwarted by robot alternatives,” Mars told MSNBC.com. “It’s just that high-quality alternatives where the robots are indistinguishable from humans will cut down the profitability of human exploitation.”

However, some tech writers such as Lauren Davis believes there are some questions that need to be answered before "ho-bots" become as common as smartphones.

"Would sex robots ... diminish the demand for human sex tourism enough to negatively impact the economies of certain regions? Or would human sex tourism in those regions explode as robotic prostitutes came to displace human ones in places that could afford the robots?" she wrote on iOP.com. "If human sex tourism did somehow become an economic impossibility, how might the economies of those regions shift and change?"

Christian Bryant of Mashable.com also sees some potential downsides, such as weird R2D2 noises during sex and waiting for software updates and one definite upside.

"Technically, this won't be cheating, right?" he asked.

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Comments

[G J R]

02:55 PM on 06/21/2012

if these things work and look hot and realistic.....women might as well get on a shuttle to jupiter.
cause they are done. thats their only power over us.sex. and when we can customize...and get different looks and shapes,whoa......women,we'd like you to meet our divorce attorneys.

[cecilauthor]

03:42 PM on 06/06/2012

Goodbye market for human trafficking! It will irritate some women, but save lives in the long run.

[tendril]

11:13 PM on 05/31/2012

"...Robot alternative" Sounds so sexy (not).

[avg american]

06:17 PM on 05/24/2012

If they give back massages, play euchre, fix the toilet and help with household repairs, I'm in.

I'll take 3 please.

One Carlos model, one Jean-Claude, and one Jake.

It takes 4 to play euchre.


;)

[gneep]

01:41 PM on 05/24/2012

I want to be the first to call for the re-naming of the planet Earth to URALLNUTZ!

[jenniferkizzy]

11:13 AM on 05/21/2012

attention men every where if you screw a mechanical barbie doll you are the lamest human being on earth that is all from zombie chick see ya

[jenniferkizzy]

05:55 PM on 05/19/2012

a man is not a machine a machine is not man when will we learn that

[Roc Steady]

03:44 PM on 05/18/2012

What about marriage? What if a man wants to marry a man-bot? What if two Man-Bots want to marry?

[itruth]

10:30 PM on 05/20/2012

i think you just created a new field of law; ROBOT AI legal.
What if your phone cheats on you with another interface? [ i see it now] APPLEGATE!

[jenniferkizzy]

11:49 AM on 05/18/2012

mechanized armies replace human soldiers in battle mechanized anything will be our ultimate down fall if we stick too what we know anything robotic will surely make us obsolete and extermination is on the way remember they are built by us do not serve us what we have wrought will surely make us extinct bye aldus huxley

[jenniferkizzy]

11:47 AM on 05/18/2012

i will say this about mechanized anything this little mud ball of a planet is doomed any way with the advancements science is making in robotics will artificial intelligence replace all aspects of human life if we can so easily replace women with them technological strength will be a threat too all who seek it out once pandoras box is opened we can no longer close it they are built by us do no serve us when will there new world order start human's must remember how fragile they are if a'i become's smarter more aware than we will have no choice but too watch our destruction bye

[cincijuggalette]

08:57 AM on 05/15/2012

2050, huh? But weren't we supposed to have flying cars and robots already? Around 2000, i believe.

[itruth]

10:46 PM on 05/20/2012

WE DO HAVE THEM NOW...THEY STILL COST MORE THAN THEY SHOULD!
AVROCAR IS ONE AND [BIG DOG] IS PRETTY WILD; TARANIS IS LIKE GEORGE JETSON

[cincijuggalette]

09:28 AM on 05/21/2012

We don't have them for the general public. If they cost more than your life may be worth, then i don't think it counts. lol

[JohnBilbao]

09:47 PM on 05/10/2012

This is going to be great..Sex without the emotional gobbledygook and baggage that comes with a relationship with a "real woman". Men don't care if these "ho-bots" aren't actually "real", with real emotions..etc If it feels the same when you insert it into a "ho-bot" , if they're warm and soft to the touch, then ..That's it. "Real women" are out of business.

[jenniferkizzy]

11:42 AM on 05/18/2012

well men you won't have too hear her say do i look fat in this honey rub my feet yeah pretty stellar

[Kandyann]

08:28 PM on 05/09/2012

Just wait for these ho-bots to malfunction. LOL You never know just what might happen and one may become injured. Disease free only if they become sanitized in between customers. Don't trust it unless it is from a reputable dealer. HMMM where would you find one, hey?

[Sam Ullrich]

09:54 AM on 12/17/2012

Yeah and don't forget, a great deal of men are total slobs. Seen their bathrooms? They can't look after themselves a lot of the time and their own world. Having to clean and disinfect a robot doll every time they jiz, well..... you see where I am going with this.

No offence to the men who clean up after themselves.... happy doll humping

[zmfts]

04:43 PM on 05/07/2012

Pretty soon, you can have robotic, mechanical sex with a droid instead of with your wife.

[cincijuggalette]

08:50 AM on 05/15/2012

Would it still be considered cheating if a man ran off to a ho-bot versus an actual woman?

[AntithiChrist]

02:36 AM on 05/26/2012

Would that be better or worse than having robotic, mechanical sex with your wife?

[moonflowerjewelry]

06:59 PM on 05/06/2012

Wouldn't it just be easier to legalize and regulate (for the protection of the workers) prostitution in the US? Certainly there will always be jaded and debauched rich people willing to invest in a very expensive toy, so the hoe-bot industry could potentially create as many jobs as it destroys. That would be a fun twist to your local e-cycling drive... decrepit, lifelike sex toys... neat!