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Sex sells, and robots are no exception. One of the most expensive consumer robots being developed, a machine called Harmony, is a $15,000 combination of silicone curves and silicon chips. Part of an estimated $30 billion industry, Harmony has software that remembers birthdays and can quote Shakespeare, according to The Guardian. Harmony also comes equipped with an intimate human-machine relationship. Sex doll maker Realbotix describes Harmony as the "perfect companion" in its marketing materials.

But in a report published on Monday in BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, two doctors warned that the health companionship of sex robots was too bold.<o:p></o:p>

Chantal Cox-George, a doctor at St George's University Hospital in the UK, and Susan Bewley, an obstetrician at King's College London, searched the medical literature for reports on the health aspects of sex robots. They finished their search right off the bat: empty-handed.<o:p></o:p>

The doctors concluded that there is no primary research data on sex robots. "We recommend that sex robots should not be used in medical practice," says Cox-George, "at least unless this forms part of robust and ethical research."<o:p></o:p>

Noel Sharkey, emeritus professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield in the UK, applauded the BMJ article, and in May 2017, as co-founder of an organisation called the Responsible Robotics Foundation, Sharkey produced a report outlining the sexual future of humans and robots.<o:p></o:p>

Sharkey said the Foundation for Responsible Robotics talked to "a lot of people" but no one was able to provide evidence of clinical use. The BMJ report, he said, "went further than we did, actually delving into hundreds of journals," but came to the same conclusion.<o:p></o:p>

Julie Carpenter, a researcher in the ethics and emerging science group at Caltech, is not surprised by the lack of empirical data. She says that robotics researchers haven't ignored thinking about these issues, but it's only in the past few months that sex robots have become widely available for purchase.<o:p></o:p>

Invalid data hasn't stopped the spread of helpful claims. "We are aware that doctors are being asked for their professional opinions on sex dolls and robots," says Cox-George. Sex robots have been suggested as a way to promote safer sex or as a way to treat people with companionship problems.<o:p></o:p>

In an interview published last year, Douglas Hines, CEO of interactive sex doll manufacturer TrueCompanion, told the Foundation for Responsible Robotics: "Our sex robot Roxxxy provides what every adult needs - unconditional love and support. The ability to feel love and embrace a lover is a right that every adult should be granted. We offer solutions to help adults meet their social and sexual needs." (TrueCompanion and Realbotix did not respond to requests for comment.)<o:p></o:p>

The idea that sex robots could ease social isolation is a common theme. A recent New York Times column equated robots with human sex workers and suggested that self-proclaimed incels - meaning "involuntarily celibate" --would try to find satisfaction in having sex with a machine.<o:p></o:p>

Sharkey said sex robot makers were also involved in "mass marketing" to provide benefits to those struggling to build relationships, but those claims don't hold water.<o:p></o:p>

"A lot of experts say it doesn't help social isolation," he says, "and may even make them more isolated." Sharkey says he knows of at least one case where a man left his wife and children for a silicone doll.<o:p></o:p>

Sex robots have also been suggested as companions for older or disabled people, which, Cox-George and Bewley write in their article, makes Cox-George and Bewley feel "patronised" and argue that "when most disabled people can have a mutually satisfying relationship when most disabled people can establish mutually satisfying relationships, their sexual experiences are 'less'."<o:p></o:p>

Kathleen Richardson, a professor of ethics at De Montfort University in the UK, has become increasingly concerned about the intrusion of machines into human relationships - an area "traditionally off-limits to the marketplace" - so much so that she launched a campaign against sex robots in 2015.<o:p></o:p>

"They think a human woman is like a machine, and that makes me angry," she says. (The vast majority of sex dolls are shaped like women.) Richardson says the ability of sex robots to satisfy the unsatisfied may also be exaggerated. She has heard of men who have gone to "doll brothels" and not been able to be aroused. "Being aroused by an object isn't very good for humans, is it?"<o:p></o:p>

Nowadays, sex dolls are not only robots but also tpe dolls and silicone dolls, which have their advantages and disadvantages, and it is ultimately up to us!<o:p></o:p>