Malfunctions....

[xodar]

Although if we let the gov regulate too much it will wind up bright red 5" across and on her forhead...

Quite right. I don't want government regulation and neither will manufacturers -- which is why they'll have all manner of built in safety factors.

I suppose brothels of robots, which will need charge far less than those of real women, will get unwelcome attention.

[Lord of the Geeks]

i'd love to see the tizzy federal regulators would go into over a fembot cathouse. is it protitution? or is more like a video arcade? its sex.. but they arent human..... whats the health dep going to do? probably require a level of sterilizations between clients.. remove her genitals and put them in an autoclave... i see brothel form coming before the cost of a sex-capilble droid drops low enough for most individual ownership

[xodar]

i'd love to see the tizzy federal regulators would go into over a fembot cathouse. is it protitution? or is more like a video arcade? its sex.. but they arent human..... whats the health dep going to do? probably require a level of sterilizations between clients.. remove her genitals and put them in an autoclave... i see brothel form coming before the cost of a sex-capilble droid drops low enough for most individual ownership

Probably so. There will be all manner of useless and ridiculous controversy, especially in the US. They might be classified as "sex devices", which are illegal in some states (Alabama, notoriously).

There will likely be rental facilities and rent-to-own stores as well as used bot stores.

What will happen if someone makes sex bots that duplicate 12 year old kids? Some will say it keeps kids from perverts and others that it will encourage the latter.

The technology is a can of worms that will cause problems for decades or even centuries... Cause problems needlessly.

[Lord of the Geeks]

My female pointed out this... i guess you'd call it a problem with a kill switch in common places. It bares mentioning, but i think its more a part of what the droids function is. She wouldnt use it for personal companionship, but as a nanny/security system. she wants one that would be programed to kill in defense of the children. downside to a common killswitch is that anyone who wanted past her "guard droid" could just hit a killswitch and walk past. effectively negating them of the guard/protector function.

as for child sized bots, as of now I believe it is illegal to even make porn movie with a simulated child below a certain age (upper teens) just as it illegal to make beastiality porn. I'm betting you could pick some up nephariouly from underground sources, but i dont see then ever approving a childlike droid for sexual activity

plus just think... with marriage reform laws rolling out.. i'm sure there would be places where you could marry one.. at least get a civil union.

[xodar]

My female pointed out this... i guess you'd call it a problem with a kill switch in common places. It bares mentioning, but i think its more a part of what the droids function is. She wouldnt use it for personal companionship, but as a nanny/security system. she wants one that would be programed to kill in defense of the children. downside to a common killswitch is that anyone who wanted past her "guard droid" could just hit a killswitch and walk past. effectively negating them of the guard/protector function.

as for child sized bots, as of now I believe it is illegal to even make porn movie with a simulated child below a certain age (upper teens) just as it illegal to make beastiality porn. I'm betting you could pick some up nephariouly from underground sources, but i dont see then ever approving a childlike droid for sexual activity

plus just think... with marriage reform laws rolling out.. i'm sure there would be places where you could marry one.. at least get a civil union.

I don't think a bot that can be programmed to kill humans is a good idea. Tell her to get a gun and learn to use it. Since you have control over the weapon it is less dangerous to oneself and more reliable than a robot. I realize women are irrational about such things (which is part of the reason for bots).

True. Child sex bots may be made but only as an underground industry for government officials and the very rich, with anyone else getting stiff sentences for it.
One objection I heard to child porn is that children have to be used making it. No more, of course, with the digital technology used in movies like Jurassic Park, but there are other more or less reasonable objections. The only problem I have is that the rule against it can interfere with legitimate art: remember Pretty Baby, the movie in which Brook Shields, at age 12, played a prostitute that age. It was actually a good movie, well done, and the point wasn't simply showing off nude little girls. The movie could now be made without the child actress in most scenes.
It's a matter that will see no end...

Animal sex baffles me, but I disapprove of abusing animals. It's legitimate to eat them and have them perform work we can't, but sex with them is not only outside the pale, but ridiculous. No doubt there will be similar bots for that, though.

Maybe there will one day be a requirement one marry a fembot to avoid prostitution charges. There's no end to the ridiculous lengths people will attain... especially about sex.

[Lord of the Geeks]

she saw an advantage in bot over a gun, in the autonomy... think of it as a highly trained humanoid attack dog. you can't set a gun on the ground and say, "guard this" and go to sleep. you could a bot. of course then you only need it humanoid so it can interact with tools. nothing says you cant have a killer abio... with built in guns and chainsaws.

[xodar]

she saw an advantage in bot over a gun, in the autonomy... think of it as a highly trained humanoid attack dog. you can't set a gun on the ground and say, "guard this" and go to sleep. you could a bot. of course then you only need it humanoid so it can interact with tools. nothing says you cant have a killer abio... with built in guns and chainsaws.

I still trust a robot less than I trust a dog or an inert tool. True, a dog can turn on you but that in reality happens less often than people's blood relatives turning on them. A dog will wake you up by barking and attacking or screaming if it is injured. I can hear mine barking in my sleep and tell exactly the meanings of the sounds they make and know whether to get up or resume deeper sleep.
There probably will be robot guards, though. I much prefer a house that is also a security tool -- with its own power source, naturally -- but concede that the bot may prove useful in the long run.

Interesting thought: I've never seen a "ghost" but have heard and sometimes seen things that could be so interpreted; apparently dogs can detect things that seem creepy to them. Could robots? I bring in dogs because they aren't going to have had much cultural conditioning in interpreting sense data -- certainly nothing as complex as ghost lore. So what if there's something like sounds or sights to which your bot responds uncharacteristically? What then? (I never found out what sometimes spooks dogs, but their senses of hearing and smell are far more acute than ours and they can see in less light.)

[Lord of the Geeks]

well. it depends on what senses the robot has. If it sees in a different spectrum than we do, then it should beable to see things we dont... or electromagnetic interference might cause it to react to something it "perceves" as there.. if that is closer to ghost than halluciantion... in the end all that any of can react to is what we perceive.. we have generally agreed that what most of us can sense is reality.. and what the minorty can pick up extra isn't "real"

[xodar]

I guess it depends on the individual. I'd hate to be attacked by a mistaken robot...

Probably an advantage to a robot whose perceptions are confused is that it might not be able to "fill in the blanks" in its perceptions the way live creatures can.

[xodar]

A possible solution to malfunctions in different types of bots and the use of bots as guards and cops would be to make sure the police bots are definitely recognizeable as machines.
They should also have some kind of kill switch but not one anyone not controlling them would know. (Maybe a word like klaatu?)