Love and Sex with Robots

✍ Scribed by Adrian David Cheok, Kate Devlin, David Levy (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 155
• Series: Lectures Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence LNAI 10237
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Love and Sex with Robots 2016 in December 2016, in London, UK.

The 12 revised papers presented together with 1 keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 38 submissions.

The papers of the Second International Conference have been accepted and reviewed in 2015 but could not be presented as there was no conference in 2015 but at the conference in 2016.

The topics of the conferences were as follows: robot emotions, humanoid robots, clone robots, entertainment robots, robot personalities, teledildonics, intelligent electronic sex hardware, gender approaches, affective approaches, psychological approaches, sociological approaches, roboethics, and philosophical approaches.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Why Not Marry a Robot?....Pages 3-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Sex Robots from the Perspective of Machine Ethics....Pages 17-26
Affective Labor and Technologies of Gender in Wei Yahua’s “Conjugal Happiness in the Arms of Morpheus”....Pages 27-39
Teletongue: A Lollipop Device for Remote Oral Interaction....Pages 40-49
ROMOT: A Robotic 3D-Movie Theater Allowing Interaction and Multimodal Experiences....Pages 50-63
For the Love of Artifice 2: Attachment....Pages 64-71
Influences on the Intention to Buy a Sex Robot....Pages 72-83
The Cyborg Mermaid (or: How Technè Can Help the Misfits Fit in)....Pages 84-96
Exploration of Relational Factors and the Likelihood of a Sexual Robotic Experience....Pages 97-103
The Impact of a Humanlike Communication Medium on the Development of Intimate Human Relationship....Pages 104-114
Kissenger – Development of a Real-Time Internet Kiss Communication Interface for Mobile Phones....Pages 115-127
Sex with Robots for Love Free Encounters....Pages 128-136
Robots and Intimacies: A Preliminary Study of Perceptions, and Intimacies with Robots....Pages 137-147
Back Matter....Pages 149-149