As with Babylon, so with robots

The base premise of a lifelike, talking robot programmed to deliver sex through onboard artificial intelligence is now a reality

Decades ago, before Tim Berner-Lees invented hyperlinks, I watched some “futuristic” porn. A man buys a telepathic sex-robot, which anticipates his desires. The problem is, he’s masochistic and into public humiliation. The “Fembot”, to use a term borrowed from Austin Powers, insists on beating him up publicly and, thus, causes much embarrassment since she has no sense of appropriateness. By porn standards, much thought had obviously gone into creating this scenario but from what I remember, the DVD quality was terrible.

The base premise — a lifelike, talking robot programmed to deliver sex through onboard artificial intelligence — is now reality.