#RobotLove #ArtificialArousal #StanfordStudy
Did you know that a Stanford study found that most humans are actually aroused by robots? 🤖 According to the study, participants were hooked up with electric sensors and were asked by a robot to touch it in 13 different areas. Can you believe that a whopping 90% of the participants showed arousal when touching the robot’s butt or crotch? 😳 This study has some pretty interesting implications for the future of artificial systems and robot design.
It’s pretty wild to think about how humans respond to robots in this way. It really makes you wonder about the potential for human-robot relationships in the future. Could we eventually see a world where people develop deep emotional connections with robots? 🌎
I mean, just take a look at the advancements in artificial intelligence and robot technology over the past few years. Robots are becoming more and more human-like every day. From lifelike facial expressions to realistic body movements, it’s getting harder and harder to distinguish between humans and robots. 🤯
Now, let’s dive into the details of the study and explore what it means for the future of robotics.
The study at Stanford involved participants being hooked up to electric sensors while interacting with a robot. The robot asked the participants to touch it in various areas, and the results were pretty surprising. When the participants touched the robot’s butt or crotch, a staggering 90% of them showed signs of arousal. This finding raises some fascinating questions about human behavior and our relationship with technology. Could it be that as robots become more and more sentient, humans will start to form emotional bonds with them? It’s certainly an intriguing possibility.
But what does this mean for the future of artificial systems and robot design? Well, for starters, it suggests that the way we design robots in the future may need to take into account the potential for human-robot relationships. For example, we may need to consider how to create robots that can respond appropriately to human emotions and physical affection. This could involve developing more advanced artificial intelligence that allows robots to interpret and respond to human cues in a way that feels natural and genuine. Additionally, it may require us to think about how to design robots in a way that is visually and physically appealing to humans.
Imagine a world where robots are not only functional and efficient but also capable of forming deep emotional connections with humans. It’s a pretty mind-blowing concept, but it’s one that could very well become a reality in the not-so-distant future. As technology continues to advance, we may see a time when robots are not just tools or assistants, but true companions to humans.
Of course, the implications of this study go beyond just the potential for human-robot relationships. It also raises important questions about human psychology and behavior. What is it about robots that elicits such strong emotional and physical responses from humans? Is it simply a matter of the human brain interpreting certain physical stimuli in a specific way, or is there something deeper at play? These are questions that researchers will no doubt continue to explore in the coming years.
In the meantime, it’s fascinating to think about how this study might shape the future of robot design and artificial systems. As technology continues to progress, we may see a shift in the way we think about and interact with robots. Instead of viewing them purely as machines, we may come to see them as complex beings capable of eliciting genuine emotional responses from humans.
So, next time you interact with a robot, whether it’s a simple voice assistant or a more humanoid machine, consider the potential for human-robot relationships. Who knows, you might just find yourself forming a deeper connection than you ever thought possible with a piece of technology. The future of robotics is certainly an exciting and thought-provoking frontier, and studies like the one conducted at Stanford are just the beginning of what promises to be a fascinating journey. 🚀
Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/8gky8g/turns-out-most-humans-are-aroused-by-robots-study-says-vgtrn
We’re doomed
The billion dollar a year sexbot market would like to humbly respond…
Yah no duh, what is your next study going to find Stanford?
Water is wet?
That’s disgusting, how could anyone want to be fucked by a non human touch operated by electronics, motors and plastics, unlike most sex toys which are made of electronics, motors and plastic.
Why the robots decided to nuke humans
I don’t doubt that someone arranged a study that had those results.
I just don’t buy it.
Were women part of this or just men?
Did the robots look like Rosie from The Jetson’s or were they humanoids designed to look like nubile women?
So many questions I’m not interested in enough to search out answers.
I think the number is probably higher. This article was from 2016. They had no idea about the twins from Atomic Heart.
Give it about 30-40 years (if humanity isn’t exploded back to the Paleolithic) semi-sentient sex bots will be prolific I bet.
Right now we’re just at the beginning of the AI era and it’s only going to get more and more crazy as time goes on.
Sadly I live in the middle of the uncanny valley and only the real thing works.
Stupid sexy robots.
I think Stanford scientists are using research money to justify their own kinks.
Ok admittedly I don’t know all the facts, but don’t we just appreciate contact on those areas?
Well, if they were college-age, then duh, they’d be aroused by a rock, a stick or a gust of wind!
Surely we (mostly) aren’t aroused by robots, but rather the crotch and butt, which just so happen to be on a robot.
It’s like saying most Renaissance humans were attracted to ink or oil paint when they were just looking at the og hentai.
TLDR: A bunch of Stanford PHD students built a groperbot and watched as a bunch of volunteers groped it and then snickered like Beavis and Butthead when the participants would get aroused.
I mean… if you signed up for the “sex robot study” something tells me your into that
no pics of robot butt in article … LAME
These researchers already created Fisto, they just needed to justify it.
TIDL: most humans showed arousal when being touched in the butt or crotch.
We had a robot poke participants in the penis and they got hard so.
I think it has more to do with primitive instinct with humans wanting or liking that area, and not because its a robot.
TOUCH ME IN THE CROTCH REGION HUMAN.
OOH BABY.
THAT IS SO HOT.
Touch me like one of your French robots.
Wildly misleading headline and article. If you look at the actual study, they say “emotional arousal” and “hesitance,” meaning people felt uncomfortable doing this. They discuss social norms around intimacy
Sounds like someone who just like to sell robot prostitution
90% of people are aroused by robotic sex toys like this is kinda silly study.
[This study only included 10 people and they were all college students](https://www.wendyju.com/publications/li_mechanical.pdf). That’s a tiny sample size and likely limited to a very small age range of people in their late teens and early twenties, a period when people are often quite sexually active.
The idea that 90% of people are aroused by robots (the implication of the title, though not the actual claim), should be taken with not just a grain, but a wheelbarrow of salt.
EDIT: Updated number of participants and linked to original paper.
you don’t need a Stanford study to determine this. Just ask your mom why she spends so much time in the laundry room.
What “implications”? What “implications”?! Are we going to be seeing more robots with butts and crotch bulges in the future?
Meh, a whole lotta nothing.
Of course you’re gonna get responses from people touching robots nethers (at least when they look humanish)
We have been conditioned practically since birth that those bits are not just for *anyone*.
Filter out the potential fear response and you’d probably get the same reactions from people touching *any* recognized naughty bits from any animal.
Doesn’t mean they wanna fuck that animal.
Id argue its a pavlovian response at this point.
Poor future robots. Will seggs bot be their only function?
Something says it’s not the fact that it’s a robot. I think it’s more the fact that something is acting you to preform a lewd act.
So many people lack any form of sensual or non sensual touch that simply asking to be touched would arouse a lot of people.
Literally in the article:
> But it’s not like all of us have a secret hidden robot fetish. The emotional arousal Li documented doesn’t necessarily prove that people are having dirty, sexy thoughts about robots—they might just feel a little hesitation touching the robot’s junk areas, even if there’s no actual junk to touch.
Ppl aren’t necessarily turned on by touching the robot, as much as they’ve been conditioned to think that touching those parts on a human is considered intimate.
This doesn’t prove people are aroused by robots as much as people have erotic zones and if stimulated the person becomes aroused
I mean maybe it’s just that 90% of Stanford students are aroused by robots.
I wouldn’t be surprised.
Based on the headline alone: maybe humans are aroused by having their erogenous areas touched? Crazy concept, I know.
Okay I just looked it up, the people in the study are real freaks that robot is not sexy at all!
This is kinda dumb – or maybe I am dumb. But this is like putting a pair of boobs on a tree and then having people touch the boobs and concluding that humans are aroused by trees. Or making a chair that has a dick and getting people to touch it and using that as proof that people are sexually attracted to chairs.
Does this account for autonomous response to stimuli in the genital region? It would appear that there this isn’t about what people are sexually attracted to but more that stimuli to genitals create arousal in an automatic response
The amount of people who didn’t understand the headline and/or didn’t read the article is amazing.
This has to do with humans touching robot butts, ***not*** the robots touching human butts.