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ROBOTS: Would You Date A Robot?

Dec 14, 2021

01:07:55

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Introduction

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The Robots Are a Great Matchmaker!

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A Robot Dating Contest

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The Kiss Test for Team X

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Doctor Martia, Are You Going on a Second Date?

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Sex Robots - What Are They?

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Sex Workers Are So Skilled at Creating a Space for Your Sexual Desires

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Sex Robots Are Just Fancy Toys

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Is It Permissible to Treat a Sex Robot Badly?

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Sex Robots - Are They Going to Rise Up Against Us?

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Humanoid Robots - What Materials Should You Use?

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Using a Lithium Battery in a Sex Robot

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Lithium Batteries - What You Need to Know

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Robotic Robotics

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Sex Robots

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Flashforward Is Supported by Nature

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How Sex Toys Are Entering the Internet of Things

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Machine Learning and Sex Robotics

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The Future of Sex Robots

2min

Today we travel to a future where we can take a robot home for a good time, or a long time, depending on what you’re into.

Content note: today’s episode discusses sex and includes explicit language. This one is more “mature” than most episodes, so proceed accordingly.

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Guests:

Tina Horn: author of SFSX (Volume 2 out now) and host of Why Are People Into That?
Danielle Blunt: dominatrix and community organizer with Hacking//Hustling
Samantha Floreani: Program Lead at Digital Rights Watch
Ingrid Burrington: journalist and host of RIP Corp
Dr. Debbie Chachra: professor of engineering at Olin College
Render Man: hacker & founder of the Internet of Dongs

Voice Actors:

Rachael Deckard: Richelle Claiborne
Brad: Brent Rose
Halimah: Zahra Noorbakhsh
Malik: Henry Alexander Kelly
Summer: Shara Kirby
Ashoka: Anjali Kunapaneni
Eliza: Chelsey B Coombs
Dorothy Levitt: Tamara Krinsky
John Dee: Keith Houston
Dr. Marcia Eckers: Andrea Silenzi

Original X Marks the Bot theme music by Ilan Blanck.

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Flash Forward is hosted by, Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Mattie Lubchansky.

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