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Category: Robots

Pride or shame? Access to sex robots for older people with disabilities

Posted on August 25, 2020

By Nancy S. Jecker. Sex is about so much more than pleasure.  It relates to some of the  most central things we can do and be as human beings, such as generate a personally meaningful narrative of our lives; be physically, mentally and emotionally healthy; experience bodily integrity; affiliate and bond; feel and express a […]

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Westworld, ethics and maltreating robots

Posted on March 16, 2020

By Colin Gavaghan and Mike King This week saw the return, for a third season, of the critically acclaimed HBO series Westworld. WW’s central premise in its first 2 seasons was a theme park, sometime in the near future, populated by highly realistic robots or ‘hosts’. Human guests can pay exorbitant sums to interact with […]

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