Mankind can't seem to stop seeing robots as sexual beings. Newscheap.info

Thehuman race has always had a passion for exploring the unexplored. Imagining the unimagined.

For centuries, that was mostly centered around survival. But in our uber-modern age,with fewer diseases and problems of survival for scientific minds to tackle, researchers end up channelising their energy towards the fascinating rather than the fundamental. Some of it so bizarre, you begin to fear that we're headed for a dystopia where the world has run out of 'normal' problems to solve and in an attempt to prevent their grey cells atrophying, have to rely on manmade challenges. Like figuring out whether humans are sexually aroused by robots. Or by manufacturing a robot version of Scarlett Johannson.

Both examples are, sadly,not hyperbole. In fact, both have happened in recent times and seem to herald apart-dodgy-part-hilarious ecosystem of radical science experiments for the future.

ROBO LOVE

Humans having sex with robots has been, creepily enough, on the agenda of scientistsfor quite a while. The latest breakthrough comes in the form of a study by a team of Stanford University scientists. As part of this study, ten human volunteers (four female, six male) were told to follow the instructions of an Aldebaran Robotics Nao robot that had been programmed to tell participants to either point at or touch 13 different parts of its body, using their dominant hand.

Before you get ideas already, the other hand was resting on a sensor that kept a tabon skin conductance - this was to help researchers observe whether the participant was getting aroused, either emotionally or physically.