Natural History of the Present
Rob Brooks – Evolutionary Biologist & Author
I recently encountered a man who goes by the rather unusual name of Davecat, and who describes himself using the even more unusual labels of ‘robosexual’ and ‘iDollator’. He prefers the company of life-size dolls over human partners. He’s done plenty…
It started with humans pushing machines’ buttons. Now they are pushing ours. When the COVID-19 pandemic sent so many people into work-from-home isolation, it funneled much of our social interaction onto the internet. Children learn via Zoom classrooms, colleagues meet on Microsoft…
Sex robots, according to breathless media reports, are coming. Or, if not, then they are certainly on their way. Robotic androids and gynoids, animated by the 21st Century sorcery of artificial intelligence, stand ready to slide between the sheets and make themselves…
I find myself thinking a lot about sex robots these days. In this, I am far from alone. Over the last few years, the dolls and toys that people keep in the very darkest recesses of their closets have found…