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Times Colonist: Smart robots are on the way

28 December 2009 No Comment

The following link is just another general editorial raising questions/concerns about various roboethics issues – not much is new.

But the article alludes to the possibility that virtual sex and our relationship with online avatars may help us in answering some of the questions regarding sex robots.

A woman in Britain broke up with her husband because she found his avatar (a computerized alter ego) having virtual sex online with someone else’s avatar.

Original Article: Smart robots are on the way.

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