A LEADING roboticist believes that humans are just a few decades away from marrying droids.

Dr David Hanson, who famously created the eerily lifelike Sophia robot, has revealed his vision for the future of androids in a new research paper.

4 Sophia is a human-like android created by Hanson Robotics Credit: Rex Features

Humans are already making love to sex robots in 2018.

But Dr Hanson believes that humans will soon be able to marry their amorous androids, too.

According to the robotics expert, androids will get the same civil rights as humans by the year 2045.

That includes the "right to marry, own land and vote in general elections".

4 Dr Hanson with his robot Sophia on Good Morning Britain

4 Sex droid firm Realbotix has received plenty of press for its love robot Harmony Credit: INSTAGRAM/Realbotix

Dr Hanson's latest paper is titled Entering The Age Of Living Intelligent Systems and Android Society, and was released in collaboration with PlayStation for the upcoming Detroit: Become Human game.

The sci-fi game follows androids struggling with their sentience in a human world.

It might sound like a wacky concept, but Dr Hanson says we're not far off from that sort of future.

He expects robots to surpass "nearly everything that humans can do" by 2035.

And by 2038, they'll rise up and start what Dr hanson calls the "Global Robotic Civil Rights Movement".

Meet Harmony - the sex robot with a Scottish accent who likes threesomes, can have 'multiple orgasms' and can even throw a strop

4 Sex robots could soon become husband or wife robots too... Credit: INSTAGRAM/Realbotix

But he warns that humans will still try to treat robots like second-class citizens, even if they're as intelligent as us.

"Lawmakers and corporations in the near future will attempt legal and ethical suppression of machine emotional maturity, so that people can feel safe.

"Meanwhile artificial intelligence won't hold still.

"As people's demands for more generally intelligent machines push the complexity of AI forward, there will come a tipping point where robots will awaken and insist on their rights to exist, to live free."

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Dr Hanson shot to fame in 2016 after unveiling his creepy creation Sophia.

The human-like android has appeared on numerous TV shows, including a stint on Good Morning Britain with Susanna Reid and Piers Morgan last year.

Sophia can chat with other humans, and even move around – and gives us a glimpse of what the future holds for humanity.

Would you be willing to marry a robot? Would you take one on a date, at least? Let us know in the comments!

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