For most of us, the idea of having sex with the metal body of a machine is faintly alarming – but sex robots are going to be here next year for just £12,300.

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Not only that, they’ll talk, urging on their lovers with words – and vibrating and moving as their ‘lovers’ have sex with them.

The machines – equipped with warm ‘human-like’ genitals – will just be the first step in a new arms race to create the sexiest robot, an expert has warned.

Writing in the Mail on Sunday, David Levy author of Love and Sex With Robots says, ‘This coming wave of sex robots will be humanlike in appearance and size. They will have human-like genitals. And they will allow intercourse according to their owner’s sexual orientation and tastes.




‘The machines in question are being developed by Abyss Creations at their Californian factory, and are likely to retail for around $15,000 (£12,300). But we can be certain that rival companies in America, Japan and Korea are scrambling to catch up.

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‘We can expect the first ones to resemble the current RealDolls, a range of expensive but extraordinarily detailed silicone sex dolls made in America, but with more ‘functionality’. This will be comparatively limited at first – some basic words, some simple movements and vibrations in response to touch.

‘The real point, though, is this: as time goes by they will become ever more lifelike as technology advances and new material becomes available and affordable.

‘Synthetic skin embedded with electronic sensors will enable the robots to react with (artificial) pleasure as they are caressed by their owner-lovers, for example. And as Artificial Intelligence researchers improve the quality of computer-generated conversation, robots will develop the skills needed for seduction and the whispering of sweet nothings during love-making.

Will you fall in love with a robot? By the year 2050, sex with robots will be common – and some people may actually fall in love with androids. David Levy fpredicted that human-robot marriages would take place by 2050. Others predict that human-robot relationships will be a little more cold-hearted and mercenary. In their paper ‘Robots, men and sex tourism’ Ian Yeoman and Michelle Mars of the University of Victoria Management School in Wellington, New Zealand, say that robot prostitutes will be common, but expensive, by 2050. They imagine Amsterdam brothels offering, ‘a range of sexual gods and goddesses of different ethnicities, body shapes, ages, languages and sexual features.’