robot sex

''People are going to be having sex with robots within five years'' he said. So should limits be set on the appearance, for example, of such robotic sex toys?
The greatest danger, however, is likely to lie with robots that are able to learn from their ''experiences''. As systems develop, robots are likely to have much more sophisticated self-learning mechanisms built into them and it may become impossible to predict exactly how they will behave.
''My guess is that we'll have conscious machines before 2020,'' said Ian Pearson, futurologist-in-residence at BT. ''If we put that in a robot, it's an android. That is an enormous ethical change.''