Insights April 17th, 2017

Futurist Speaker Nikolas Badminton
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In preparation for the Canada Futurists – Vancouver Chapter meetup on ‘The Future of Love and Sex’ I have been looking at many resources that discuss sex robots. In this time I have come across a number of resources that I wanted to collate and share.

Sex Robots | Kate Devlin | TEDxWarwick

Kate takes to the TEDxWarwick stage to introduce us to human-robot intimacy, its ethical considerations and the limitations of its development.
Dr. Kate Devlin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work in the fields of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) investigate how people interact with and react to technologies, focusing on cognition, sex, gender and sexuality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlNV2fx7iS0

RealDoll’s first sex robot took me to the uncanny valley (engadget)

Engadget’s editor-in-chief, Christopher Trout, tours Abyss Creations, makers of the hyper-lifelike RealDoll sex doll just months before the release of Harmony AI. When the Android app debuts later this April, it will give users access to a sexualized personal assistant, like Siri for phone sex. But the real draw is Harmony the sex robot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3880Trwl-AE
Read on: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/11/r…

Making The World’s First Male Sex Doll: Slutever

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The Modern Futures Podcast – Ep009: Robosexuality and Sex Robots with Katie Metaverse

In this episode Nikolas interviews Katie Metaverse, known by her Internet name “Miss Metaverse” (MM) is a New York based Futurist + Founder, BodAi, a New York based tech startup dedicated to bringing humanity’s dream of coexisting with humanoid robot companions to life through emerging technologies.
Apps, VR, and sex robots (Bods) are discussed in detail along with what robosexuality is, idollators, what considerations are needed, as well as ethical boundaries of this new field of technology.

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Nikolas Badminton

Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is world-renowned futurist speaker, a Fellow of The RSA (FRSA), a media personality, and has worked with over 400 of the world’s most impactful companies to establish strategic foresight capabilities, identify trends shaping our world, help anticipate unforeseen risks, and design equitable futures for all. In his new book – ‘Facing Our Futures’ – he challenges short-term thinking and provides executives and organizations with the foundations for futures design and the tools to ignite curiosity, create a framework for futures exploration, and shift their mindset from what is to WHAT IF…

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