''Love and Sex with Robots'' by David Levy, first published in 2007, is a book about the future development of

sex robot Sex robots or sexbots are anthropomorphic robotic sex dolls that have a humanoid form, human-like movement or behavior, and some degree of artificial intelligence. , although elaborately instrumented sex dolls have been created by a number of i ...

s: robots that will have sex with humans. Levy claims that this practice will be routine by 2050.

Reception

Kathleen Richardson of the ' wrote a position paper arguing "that Levy’s proposal shows a number of problems, firstly his understanding of what prostitution is and secondly, by drawing on prostitution as the model for human-robot sexual relations, Levy shows that the sellers of sex are seen by the buyers of sex as ''things'' and not recognised as human subjects." She goes on to argue that " is legitimates a dangerous mode of existence where humans can move about in relations with other humans but not recognise them as human subjects in their own right."View online.

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2007 non-fiction books Robotics books Sex robots {{engineering-book-stub