Robot marriage is next after same-sex marriage, say experts

 

Benjamin Butterworth  

 

Experts are predicting that humans will be able to marry robots by 2050.

David Levy, author of a book on human-robot love, made the prediction at a ‘Love and Sex with Robots’ conference.

It’s claimed that because society used to look at same-sex marriage as unthinkable, which is now legal in some countries, the prospect of robot marriages is now on the cards.
The University of London event predicted that the human-robot marriages will be legal by 2050.
Though it may seem far flung, robots that humans can have sex with have long been in the pipeline.
Now those in the know are predicting that humans will be able to go one step further and invest maritally in their robotic partners.
Adrian Cheok, a computing professor at City University London and director of the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore, says the prediction is not so unlikely.

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