I recently installed an iPhone chatbot app called Replika AI that generates personalized AI friends. I get to share my thoughts, feelings, beliefs and wishes with the bot just as I would with a human ...

"I'd rather have a Paper Doll to call my own than have a fickle-minded real live girl."—The Mills Brothers The existence of robots is no longer a new phenomenon in our society. The new issue is, to ...

Wei Gao, an assistant professor of medical engineering at Caltech thinks developers have demonstrated a "proof of concept" but he wants to continue developing the skin. Getty Images Sex robots could ...

She's the automaton of your dreams: sexy, rubbery, and with multiple personalities. Meet Roxxxy, billed as the world's first sex robot. Did we mention she's from New Jersey? Crave freelancer Tim ...

Carlotta Rigotti, postdoctoral researcher at eLaw—Center for Law and Digital Technologies, has published a new article, "Desire in Code: Legal Perspectives on Sex Robots and Consent," in Law, Culture ...