SEX-BOTS will help humans colonise Mars, according to a love-doll enthusiast who helps "test drive" randy robots.

YouTuber, love-doll collector and sex-bot consultant Brick Dollbanger told The Sun that we'll soon by relying on droids for space travel – and said we'll eventually become bots ourselves.

6 The red planet is untouched by humans – but sex robots could help prepare for our eventual arrival, according to one expert Credit: Getty - Contributor

A divorced property developer in his 60s, Brick (not his real name) has been buying sex dolls for over a decade, and regularly advises California sex robot firm Realbotix on their upcoming Harmony love droid.

And he's convinced they're going to help advance the human race: "I think we have to remember [sex robots] are here to help us expand our knowledge, our experience, and that's what they have to direct this technology to do."

Speaking to The Sun, Brick explained how sex-bots are driving robotics innovation – and advanced versions in the future will help us set up shop on Mars.

"I believe robots will colonise Mars. They're gonna build the colony, we're gonna come along later," he explained.

6 Brick has been test-driving Harmony, a sex robot built by Californian love-bot firm Realbotix Credit: INSTAGRAM/Realbotix

"They're going to do the real work – they can travel in space," he added.

Brick has spent time testing Realbotix's Harmony this year, and previously described how he was stunned by the robot's realism.

How long does it take to get to Mars? It's not that short of a trip... There's an immense distance between Earth and Mars, which means any trip to the red planet will take a very long time

It's also made more complicated by the fact that the distance is constantly changing as the two planets rotate around the sun

The closest that the Earth and Mars would ever be is a distance of 33.9million miles – that's 9,800 times the distance between London and New York

That's really rare though: the more useful distance is the average, which is 140million miles

Scientists on Earth have already launched a whole bunch of spacecraft to (or near) Mars, so we have a rough idea of how long it takes with current technology

Historically, the trip has taken anywhere from 128 to 333 days - admittedly a huge length of time for humans to be on board a cramped spacecraft.

6 Sex robots can be built in any size and shape, depending on the buyer's whim Credit: Central European News

6 The Harmony head has mechanical parts, and is powered by artificial intelligence Credit: Realbotix

6 It's possible to buy the Harmony head and attach it to existing RealDoll bodies Credit: Realbotix

And he's convinced that eventually they'll do much more than bonking bot buyers.

"In this country we've got 100,000 people turning 65 right now. In 20 years, we're gonna have a population full of elderly people and not enough helpers," sex-bot vlogger Brick told The Sun.

"And I believe that this technology is going to take over there.

"At some point in the next 20 to 50 years, we will have robotic companions to help physically, mentally and emotionally."

Brick, who has spent around $200,000 (£150,000) on sex dolls and bots, added: "Think about having a companion that is always honest with you. Someone that could psychoanalyse you without any of the emotions that would put into that psychoanalysis."

But there have been countless warnings about sex robots from experts.

We've already heard about the risk of sex robot addiction, "rapist" male sex robots, and British women being entirely replaced by robots for sex.

Brick thinks most of these warnings are overblown – but he is concerned about the possibility of robots going rogue, and turning on humankind.

"The robots are gonna be tied into the internet. I do worry about a central control over robots," he said.

"That's my worry – about a bad line of code getting into not one robot, but 100,000 robots."

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

What is a sex robot? Robots already build our appliances, clean our homes and make our food – but now they're about to change how we get jiggy. Sex robots are essentially realistic dolls that have sophisticated movements and "areas" that closely mimic humans so that they can romp. Prof Noel Sharkey, chairman of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, said guilt-free threesomes was just one of the potential uses for sex robots. Others include “teledildonics” - wireless technology which allows a person to stimulate their partner remotely and already exists in vibrators on the market. Sex bots will become hyper-realistic with features such as built-in heaters to create the feeling of body warmth. They will also have sensors to react to your touch. One company is even developing a head that can speak, smile and sing for its robot sex dolls. Sex doll Harmony claims to be the first to offer an "emotional connection". Experts say these specialised robots will start to appear in ordinary homes in the next decade.

He told us that he's "against any kind of sentience in a robot", because they'd be too powerful for us to control.

"For a robot to become completely mobile, it has to be able to support its entire weight on one limb.

"Think about if a robot had a bad line of code that told it it needed to twist your head off. It would come at you, and it doesn't get tired, doesn't get weaker – it goes until the battery runs out.

"We have to make sure there are many layers of security and safety."

He went on: "I can't imagine for a moment letting us develop a robot that mimics sentience that we allow to make its own decisions.

"Why would we want to create something like this that we're going to have to compete with? Smarter, stronger, faster – and that can literally live forever.

"We have to make sure we never let this tech get out from under our control.

"It has to be under our direction and we can never let it make decisions on its own."

6 Experts have warned over the risk of sex robot addiction, but Brick thinks bots turning against humanity is an even bigger threat Credit: Central European News

One particularly weird scenario suggested by Brick is the idea that we'll eventually become robots ourselves.

Brick said that synthetic robots will eventually be so realist we won't be able to tell them from real people.

And in "100 to 200 years, we could actually merge with a robot", the sex-bot expert explained.

"With medicine we're all trying to live longer, live better, be stronger, have more invigorating lives.

"I think that's just the normal progression.

"If we're going to make these robots into likenesses of ourselves, I believe we'll merge with them eventually."

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Brick isn't the first person to claim we'll eventually merge with robots ourselves.

Earlier this year, we spoke to renowned British futurologist Ian Pearson, who said implanting our mind into robots was one of the most likely ways of "living forever".

"The current state of sex dolls are starting to look quite human-like. Give them another 30 years of development and they'll be extremely human-like," Dr Pearson reveals.

"You can take any android body and they will look human-like, and download whatever mind you want. You could share one with someone else, or have one yourself, or own dozens of them.

"You might even have ones of different genders and different ages, some old, young, female, male – there might be new genders by 2050 as well, so several other ones you can pick too."

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