http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23637225

Freaks me out, but then I've seen a lot of sci-fi

I laughed at the 25m Americans bit! It could also make the world's oldest profession more niche and expensive if it ever took off

What about replicants?

They're the worst! The things they've seen...

There will be a huge market for this IMO. Most girls think they look like Snow White and don't realise they are ugly/annoying and they want their handsome prince. Meanwhile, most guys like to think they're Brad Pitt and chase after girls essentially out of their league. So unless you want kids, this will seem like a viable alternative for many. We may even get to a stage where a human-AI couple will be allowed to adopt.

That sounds like the start of a long downward slide, that will lead to legalizing sex with robot ducks

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Sign me up!

I don't see the appeal. I spent years looking for the right woman and I didn't need one night stands or ladies of the night to 'keep me going', so I can't see a robot doing anything for me. And over here the bordellos often run special prices for the unemployed.

So, you wouldn't let Twiki play with your twinky?

What?! It was the first barely relevant robot name I could think of.

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Humans get aroused by flashing colours or patterns of ink on a 2D plane, if those patterns and colours happen to form the shape of genitalia of the preferred sex. There's nothing difficult about turning humans on, hence why, quite pointlessly, James T Kirk has a sexual attraction to numerous females of completely wrong and irrelevant species.

Answer, yes, but then again it would be an exploitation of our perfectly normal instincts, it wouldn't be having sex with a Whirlpool Dishwasher. The social isolation would be something unhealthy, but you get that from TV and the internet anyway, it's all just too easy, we get spoiled and unhappy.

Hence why I have a great respect for people who deliberately challenge themselves and put themselves through the "hell" of triathlons or super-marathons, I know exactly why they do it, because the rewards of life will all seem exquisitely exaggerated by the pain and difficulty.

We're heading towards a culture that views reward as something which comes first, is the basic right of people, sex, love, money, luxury... and unless we adopt the Star Trek view of viewing intellectual pursuit of knowledge and science as the goal of human life, we'll get thoroughly bored with it all.

Single men don't need robots....... they have their right hand.

That sounds like discrimination against lefties

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Don't worry

Socialists can join in as well

I would ask about the Tories, but I suspect we already know the answer to that one.

A little bit of politics there, ladies and gentlemen </Ben Elton>

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Does she count as a robot?

Wasn't that up for debate in the film? Or was that Deckard? I didn't take to the film really

EDIT - I await a debate about what's a robot and what's a cyborg