Brazil BR. A few companies around the world are now developing and selling sex robots. Questions such as "how will relationships with robots' impact human relations in the future" emerge when technologies are used to meet the social and emotional needs of individuals.
Considering that technology and design have embedded values and biases, this article surveys the use of sex robots from a bioethical perspective. Relationships with robots and computational systems, like Artificial Intelligence, are a possibility for many people around the world. We present questions raised by the voices in favor of robot sex, and against it. Beyond a binary polarization, the bioethical perspective recalls the Foucaultian concepts of biopolitics and biopower to situate the problems with the mechanization of intimate relationships.
We argue that sex robots offer the opportunity to review old patterns regarding gender, inequality, and health. Presentamos preguntas planteadas por voces a favor y en contra del sexo con robots. Preguntes sobre "Com afectaran les relacions amb els robots a les relacions humanes en el futur? Presentem preguntes plantejades per veus a favor i en contra del sexe amb robots. Robot sex is a product designed for the experience of intimacy with a user. Robots are technologies endowed with automation, built to accomplish specific tasks.
The medical profession needs to be prepared for inevitable questions about the impact of sex robots on health. In , the first doll with robotic features for the 'adult market' appeared. Yet, the number of sold and manufactured robots is still unclear. Nascimento et al.
Sex dolls are looking more realistic by the day, benefiting from research of materials that imitates human skin and other human features. The additions of bio technology innovations, robotics, and AI opens a call to a bioethical debate Nascimento, Siqueira-Batista, We argue that sex robots are new devices that demand an understanding of the possible impacts in terms of culture and health.
