Well it seems that MSNBC has finally caught up with something that many of us had figured out long ago . . . Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen. Levy’s timetable is a bit off. His prediction that withint five years someone will be having regular sex with a robot isn’t too far wrong. I would imagine that as soon as someone puts a computer chip in a sex doll, it will happen. We are seeing some amazing work in lifelike robot construction, animatronics that mimic human movement and expression (Taiwan just developed a new lifelike series of such humanoid robots and Japan’s had a number of them for some time). However, the piece on Levy’s work ignores the parallel development of lifelike attributes built into high end sex dolls. The very high end Real Dolls and the like are becoming ultra realistic and some experiments have been done in adding mechanical parts (the ultra suck action) and the like to create even more realistic effects. It is becoming increasingly common for some men to turn to expensive unreal sex dolls for companionship and emotional attachment as their social skills atrophy in a world of computerized isolation. There are folks who already “marry” sex dolls, one company in Japan sells extremely high end sex dolls that require clients to go through a marriage ceremony before taking them home. I would think Levy’s 2050 year might be a bit late for such human-robot marriages although he might be on the mark for legal marriages.