Sexbots could kill their human partners

Robot lovers could be “better in bed than humans” as they will know exactly what their lovers want, Professor Snell, of Kirkwood college, in the US, said. Sex robots – who will offer blokes a different kind of sex – could “surpass” human technique and essentially be tireless, he added in "The impacts of robotics sex".

But the love machines could “over-exert” real people because fellas have “physical limits”, one expert warned. Oliver Bendel told the Love & Sex with Robots conference at Goldsmiths University in London: “If the machine over-exerts the human, it reduces the possibility of human sex.