Sposarsi con un donna/uomo robot? Sarà possibile entro il 2050.

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DI  – Gennaio 14, 2017 – Macitynet.it

Matrimoni tra esseri umani e robot? Potrebbero essere legali nel 2050

Se ne è parlato a Londra nel corso di una conferenza. “Molti matrimoni tra esseri umani sono frutto di profonda insoddisfazione” e in futuro potrebbe essere ritenuta una scelta perfettamente normale.

Fra qualche anno potremo sposarci con un robot. Lo prevedono esperti del settore spiegando che permetteranno di fare sesso ma non solo: saranno coniugi perfetti e servizievoli, romantici quanto basta a fare perdere la testa a qualunque uomo o donna. Ne ha parlato David Levy, autore di “Love and Sex with Robots”,  nel corso di una conferenza alla Goldsmith University di Londra, prevedendo che il matrimonio tra uomo e robot sarà legale nel 2050; a ritenere non così azzardata la previsione anche Adrian Cheok, computing professor della City University London e direttore del Mixed Reality Lab di Singapore.

“Sembra irriverente ma 35 anni addietro molti pensavano la stessa cosa del matrimonio omosessuale” dice Cheok. “Fino agli anni ’70, alcuni stati non consentivano il matrimonio tra persone bianche e di colore. La società progredisce e cambia molto rapidamente”.

Il matrimonio tra uomini e robot non sarà legale fino al 2050 ma Cheok ritiene che prima di allora gli esseri umani conviveranno a lungo con partner-robot. Secondo lui potranno soddisfare “fantasie sessuali maschiliste” con un effetto “straordinariamente positivo” sulla società. «La gente pensa che chiunque possa sposarsi, fare sesso, innamorarsi ma per molti non è così facile. Anche chi potrebbe, forse è alla ricerca di una scelta diversa». «Molte unioni tra esseri umani portano a profonda insoddisfazione” dice ancora Cheok, “e un matrimonio con un robot, per alcuni versi è forse preferibile a una vita coniugale con un essere umano”.

Sul mercato esistono già costosissime bambole e robot personalizzabili anche nei dettagli intimi, ma non esistono ancora sistemi perfetti in grado di simulare una relazione sentimentale. Secondo Cheok non è una grande sfida dal punto di vista tecnologico ma semplicemente una questione di software, di sviluppare un bot in grado di comprendere a sufficienza le conversazioni permettendo all’automa di comportarsi di conseguenza. Risolto il problema lato software, secondo Cheok stabilire una relazione non è più problema. “Se un robot sembra amarti, e senti di volergli bene, la sensazione sarà essenzialmente quella di amore quasi umano”. In Giappone e Corea del Sud esistono già tante persone “innamorate” di personaggi creati al computer; l’amore verso personaggi virtuali può essere paragonato secondo Cheok a quello che si prova verso altre specie, come ad esempio i gatti domestici. “Abbiamo già empatia molo elevata per creature non umane e con robot che si comportano come umani, dimostrando emotività o sembrando umani, non ci vorrà molto a provare empatia verso i robot”.

Non tutti sono della stessa opinione. Oliver Bendel, professore presso la Scuola universitaria professionale svizzera crede poco questa eventualità parlando di questione morale. “Il matrimonio è una forma di contratto tra esseri umani con reciproci diritti e obblighi, compresi la cura e il benessere dei bambini”. “Forse un giorno i robot potranno comprendere  diritti e doveri, ma non penso che avverrà davvero”. Anche Bendel non nega alla fine che il matrimonio uomo-robot possa effettivamente diventare realtà entro il 2050. A suo dire legislazioni in merito potrebbero tenere conto di ciò, impedendo matrimoni di questo tipo quando la tecnologia lo permetterà.

 

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Nel film “Io e Caterina” Sordi di decide di rompere i rapporti con le donne e di comprare un robot perché svolga le mansioni domestiche, intenzionato a vivere solo e a non dover rendere conto a nessuno.

 

 

Sex Robot Conference to Be Held at London’s Goldsmiths University

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By CHARLIE NASH, October 24, 2016

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/10/24/sex-robot-conference-to-be-held-at-londons-goldsmith-university/

 

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A conference based on the industry and future of sex robots is set to be held in December at London’s “highly-respected” Goldsmiths University.

The Love and Sex with Robots Conference will take place between the 19th and the 20th of December, and boasts a current lineup of 16 doctors and professors at the event, where a number of related topics will be discussed including robot emotions, teledildonics, and intelligent electronic sex hardware.

The conference, which was originally due to take place in Malaysia until it was banned, is also encouraging paper submissions which will be compiled into “a special issue of the journal Computer Science.”

Professor Adrian David Cheok (Director of the Mixed Reality Lab), Dr. Kate Devlin (Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London), and Dr. David Levy (author of Love and Sex with Robots) are set to chair the conference, which will cost £200 for admission to the general public or £125 for students.

“Our research aims to carve a new narrative, moving away from sex robots purely defined as machines used as sex objects, as substitutes for human partners, made by men, for men,” said Dr. Devlin. “A machine is a blank slate – it is what we make of it. Why should a sex robot be binary? What about the potential for therapy? It’s time for new approaches to artificial sexuality. Cutting edge research in technology and ethics is vital if we want to reframe ideas about the human-tech relationship.”

Earlier this month, sex industry entrepreneur Bradley Charvet announced his plans to open a sex robot cafe in London, where visitors could “enjoy a nice blowjob from a sex robot” while drinking coffee and eating a pastry. Charvet also declared that if the cafe was a success, he would open another in Manchester with 24/7 service.

“I think it will be fully emotional,” claimed Futurologist Dr. Ian Pearson during an interview on the future of sex robots with Breitbart Tech in July, before adding that people would spend “about the same as they do today on a decent family-size car.”

“Now if you’re going to be buying one for that sort of money, you’ve got to buy one that you find attractive. You’ve got a wide choice over cars for instance, you’ve got to have a similar choice over robots. There’s not just going to be two models on the market, you’re going to be able to pick robots where you can customise their appearance,” he claimed. “People will design the robots that they’re buying as a home servant, or butler, or maid, or whatever it is they’re buying it for, and they’ll be customising the appearance of that so that they find it attractive.”

“In the same time-frame, artificial intelligence is reaching human levels and also becoming emotional as well,” Pearson continued. “So people will actually have quite strong emotional relationships with their own robots. In many cases that will develop into a sexual one because they’ll already think that the appearance of the robot matches their preference anyway, so if it looks nice and it has a superb personality too it’s inevitable that people will form very strong emotional bonds with their robots and in many cases that will lead to sex.”

Humans Marrying Robots? Experts Say It’s Really Coming

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By Tessa Berenson – December 27, 2016 – Fortune

http://fortune.com/2016/12/26/human-robot-love-marriage-relationships/

 

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If you were rooting for Dolores and William to make it work on Westworld, just wait a few more decades and their relationship may be able to exist in real life. That’s right, a few experts say marriage will be legal between humans and robots by 2050.

At a conference last week called “Love and Sex with Robots” at Goldsmith University in London, David Levy, author of a book on human-robot love, made the bold prediction, Quartz reports. And while some other experts were skeptical, Adrian Cheok, a professor at City University London and director of the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore, supported Levy’s idea.

“That might seem outrageous because it’s only 35 years away. But 35 years ago people thought homosexual marriage was outrageous,” Cheok said. “Until the 1970s, some states didn’t allow white and black people to marry each other. Society does progress and change very rapidly.”

And Cheok pointed out that there could be some real advantages to robot relationships. “A lot of human marriages are very unhappy,” he said. “Compared to a bad marriage, a robot will be better than a human.”

Kissenger “The World’s First Mobile Kiss Messenger” to save your long distance relationship

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Kissenger, It is the world’s first mobile kiss messenger. If you are worrying about your long distance relationship, then it is only for you. This messenger will send your kisses to your lover. It works with pressure and actuators. It records the user’s kiss and transmits it to an identical receiving device, sends to the other end through an app that also features video calling.

Kiss is an important segment to express our love, and physical touch plays an important role in the relationship. So it is not possible in long distance relations ships. By this kissenger you can plugin into the phone and give your loved ones a kiss over the internet.

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This device will sense your kiss and transmit realistic kissing sensations to your partner in real time. After kissing, you can feel the force on your lips when your partners kiss back.

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High precision sensors have embedded in the device under the silicon lip to measure the different parts of the lips during the kiss. After giving the kiss, it sends data in the form of kiss to your partner over the internet in real time.

Kissenger ios app is also available, after installing you can send kisses to your partner. These was designed by Adrian David Cheok, Emma Yann Zhang, Yukihiro Morisawa, Shogo Nishiguchi from Imagineering Lab, city university, London.

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Professor Zhang said “ kiss is an expression to express our love, it is also stress reducing when we involved in the kind of physical touch we have a lower level of blood pressure

To stay connected with your lover, friends, and family you can use this device. Kissenger is live now. They made the first working prototype for ios device is designed like a phone cover that plugs into the audio jack of iPhone or iPad.

Lonely? Kissenger simulates long-distance smooch over internet

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By Neal Augenstein – January 16, 2017 – Washington’s Top News

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A new device called the Kissenger makes it possible to give and receive a kiss through a smartphone — but it’s a bit early to start puckering up.

WASHINGTON — Long-distance relationships can be challenging, but a new device makes it possible to kiss someone over a smartphone.

Kissenger — no relationship to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger — is in the working prototype stage, said Emma Yann Zhang, a doctoral student at the Imagineering Institute in Malaysia.

“It’s a device where you can plug into your phone, and it has an array of force sensors and actuators inside the device that can measure your lip pressure,” Zhang said.

The prototype, made from a 3D printer, includes a holster which holds the phone and an oblong silicone pad.

When exchanging a long-distance kiss, each participant can see the other through Skype video and feel the lip pressure being transmitted by the partner in real-time.

“We wanted material that is as close or similar to human skin, which is soft and flexible,” said Zhang.

Zhang developed the prototype and accompanying iPhone app for her doctoral research in conjunction with professor Adrian David Cheok, at City University London.

“We want to make online or digital communication much more intimate,” said Zhang. “We can see or hear each other, but we can’t really touch each other through the internet.”

Zhang said the physical touch is very important for human relationships, especially between lovers, and for parents and children.

“Some parents want to kiss their children or grandchildren when they’re not living together with them,” she said.

While interest in the concept has been high, Zhang said there are no current plans to commercialize Kissenger, although she would be open to working with companies willing to collaborate.

The quality of the kiss likely leaves something to be desired — it’s more of a peck on the lips,  since there’s no tongue component.

And while Kissenger already has a sizable “ewww” factor — wait, there’s more.

“Now we’re looking at making the resolution of this device higher, with more sensors and actuators to  provide a more realistic kissing sensation,” including your partner’s scent, said Zhang.

“The next version we’re looking at building a kissing robot,” said Zhang. “It’s going to be a humanoid robot head, but with interactive lips.”

Ewwwww  More to come.

Emma Yann Zhang and Adrian David Cheok demonstrate how Kissenger works: