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Sex robots are definitely coming in the future
By News.com.au September 29, 2015 | 4:08pm It’s Saturday night, 2050. You switch on some music, turn down the lights and flick the switch to ON. No need for dinner or even a clean shirt because tonight, you’re romancing a robot. That’s the scenario envisaged by David Levy, author of “Love and Sex and Robots,”…
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Adrian Cheok Talk at TUT: “Everysense Everywhere Human Communication”
Adrian Cheok Talk: “Everysense Everywhere Human Communication” Time: Friday 25.9.2015 at 10.15-12 Place: TUT, Tietotalo, TB109 (Korkeakoulunkatu 1, 33710 Tampere) Adrian Cheok was visiting Tampere and gave an inspiring talk on the title “Everysense Everywhere Human Communication”. Cheok was also one of the main speakers in MindTrek 2015. The talk at TUT was organized by…
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Hug your child and taste flavours from afar
Professor Adrian David Cheok envisions a world of ‘mixed reality”, where computing is experienced with all our five senses. “We are moving from the age of information towards the age of experience and multi-sensory Internet,” he says. Professor Cheok develops ways to incorporate touch, sight, sound, smell and taste into computing. In his world of…
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Let’s not ban sex robots just yet
by Daniela Hernandez First, scientists called for a ban on autonomous killing machines. Now, their sights are set on sex robots. This week, ethicist Kathleen Richardson and roboticist Erik Billing launched the Campaign Against Sex Robots, saying sexbots would perpetuate the “immense horrors still present in the world of prostitution” which “justifies [the use of…
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