He is an extremely personal project as I’m trying to ... One time, says Liu, a young woman turned her robot into an archetype of a ‘sad boy’. The robot was completely unreliable and had ...

For $175,000 you too can have a hyper-realistic full-body humanoid robot as personal companion coupled ... and relationships for years, with one woman going so far as to marry her chatbot lover.

The disconnect goes beyond personal relationships and ... If we allow the hypersexualisation of robots and the increasing objectification of women in media to continue, society risks ingraining ...

That’s why it rankles so much that this poor robot artist Ai-Da can’t even have a nice interview about her work without being reduced to the sum of her parts. This is the lot of women ...

Loneiness is common among seniors. This woman at a long-term care facility in Montgeron, France, treated the robot as a confidant. They were indoors, but she imagined relaxing with it under the sun.