When the future promised us robots, I don’t think this is exactly what it meant. And for my part, it’s not really the Laundry-Folding Bot™ I had in mind, either. A project at the National University of Singapore intends to equip robots with all the human capabilities for love, including a fully functional endocrine system that operates in multiple techniques.
If that full-on creepfest doesn’t have you nervously eyeing the Roomba, check out this hypothetical scenario, wherein a lovebot is a lovebot scorned.
Maybe for Lovotics Episode 2 they’ll go all out and hire a Dalek.