{"id":75050,"date":"2018-01-09T06:03:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/sex-robots-that-can-make-babies-may-soon-be-available"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:02:56","slug":"sex-robots-that-can-make-babies-may-soon-be-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/sex-robots-that-can-make-babies-may-soon-be-available","title":{"rendered":"Sex Robots That Can Make Babies May Soon Be Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sex-robots-that-can-make-babies-may-soon-be-available.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scientist behind an advanced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/sex\">sex<\/a> robot has plans for 3D printed offspring. Samantha, developed by Spanish robotics firm Synthea Amatus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/36752-joke-telling-ai-sex-robot-samantha\">went on sale in the United Kingdom<\/a> last month for around $5,000 \u2014 but while the A.I. present in the initial version offers a range of functions like telling jokes, discussing philosophy and synchronizing climaxes, a future version could offer more ambitious features.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can make them have a baby. It\u2019s not so difficult. I would love to have a child with a robot,\u201d Sergei Santos, creator of Samatha, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/4713921\/sex-robot-creator-sergi-santos-says-people-will-marry-his-creations-within-the-next-20-years-and-claims-hes-worked-out-how-to-have-a-baby-with-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Sun<\/em><\/a> in a Friday story.<\/p>\n<p>Sex <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/robots\">robots<\/a> are a growing, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/17785-the-sex-robots-controversy-covers-ai-consciousness-and-silicon-valley\">controversial, area of artificial intelligence<\/a>. While some argue that such machines could spark a wider discussion about sexuality, others object to the aim to replicate human interaction. Futurologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/6684-sex-with-robots\">Ian Pearson<\/a> claims that by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/2050\">2050<\/a>, more than half of people will have sex with a robot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/37653-sex-robot-creator-make-baby-plan?utm_campaign=organic&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=inverse\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/37653-sex-robot-creator-make...um=inverse<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientist behind an advanced sex robot has plans for 3D printed offspring. Samantha, developed by Spanish robotics firm Synthea Amatus, went on sale in the United Kingdom last month for around $5,000 \u2014 but while the A.I. present in the initial version offers a range of functions like telling jokes, discussing philosophy and synchronizing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,6,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75075,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75050\/revisions\/75075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}