Mr Sharkey obviously hasn't heard of...
...RealDolls (tm)
http://www.realdoll.com (probably NSFW)
UK robotics boffins this week pooh-poohed the notion of evolving machine intelligence and the possibility of that old sci-fi staple, a future robot-rights movement. Academic droid-fanciers instead suggested that issues around robots in the near future would be primarily human ones. Government-sponsored futurologists predicted …