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Sex robots plagued with coding errors could be prone to violent behaviours including strangling, an expert has warned.

Doll collector Brick Dollbanger fears violent repercussions if robotics are not regulated properly.

He believes a simple "coding error" could turn AI girlfriends against their owners if they are equipped with free will.

Brick, who has closed ties with manufacturers Realbotix and Abyss, told Daily Star Online: "It scares me to death, it's a machine and it's always going to be a machine.

"If you've watched the movies, Ex-Machina, because I honestly believe synthetics are going to look very similar to that movie.

"It's not going to be something you can hit with a pipe and it's going to fall apart.

"I've always said, when a synthetic can support itself, that synthetic is going to be much stronger than a normal human.

"It's going to be more durable, instead of having bones it's going to have high impact, plastic or aluminium frame, it's going to be very strong, and it won't get tired, it won't stop unless it runs out of an energy supply.

"Unless you can stop it with some kind of projectile, like a gun or something like that, if this thing got out of control it could do some serious damage."

He added: "One line of bad code, as simple as that, one line of bad code.

"If you make one mistake and you have a line of bad code in there and it hits this line of bad code, depending on what it's doing or where it's at or numerous other instances, it could just decide this is what it's supposed to do.

"I's been programmed, and more than likely it's going to be answering to a cloud server of some kind to get updated to have any kind of work done on AI itself, it will have to link to the server.

"And it wouldn't stop until those things occurred. Put it this way it can put its arm around your neck and just stop you from breathing, and you wouldn't be able to get away from it, something as simple as that, a simple hug could be a constriction that could literally compress your chest and airway and stop you breathing.

"It can keep the constriction going until you stop breathing."

Sex robot technology is rapidly advancing, with new updates regularly emerging.

Realbotix is working on equipping sex robots with vision, and expect robots to be walking in only a decade.

Cloud Climax has also launched its first doll with "full artificial intelligence", promising they can "replace human intimacy".