AI Love You, 1st ed. 2019 Developments in Human-Robot Intimate Relationships

Part I: How Do We Interact With Our Artificial Partners?.- Chapter 1. Negative and Positive Influences on the Sensations Evoked by Artificial Sex Partners: A Review of Relevant Theories, Recent Findings, and Introduction of the Sexual Interaction Illusion Model.- Chapter 2. Intentionality but not Consciousness: Reconsidering Robot Love.- Chapter 3. The Use of Social Robots and the Uncanny Valley Phenomenon.- Part II: Is Technology Ready to Make Intimate Machines?.- Chapter 4. Living with Harmony: a Personal Companion System by Realbotix™.- Chapter 5. Readable as Intimate: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Empirical Interrogation of Software Implementations of Intimacy.- Chapter 6. From the Mind to the Cloud: Personal Data in the Age of the Internet of Things.- Part III: New Trends to Satisfy Our Desire.- Chapter 7. Building Better Sex Robots: Lessons from Feminist Pornography.- Chapter 8. Hologram Girl.- Part IV: Possible Implications.- Chapter 9. Preventive Strategies for Paedophilia and the Potential Role of Robots: Open Workshop Discussion.- Part V: Outlook.- Chapter 10. Intimate Relationships with Humanoid Robots: Exploring Human Sexuality in the 21st Century. 

Yuefang Zhou is a Postdoctoral Visiting Scientist to the University of Potsdam in Germany and was a visiting scholar to the Charité Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Germany (2017 – 2018).  She holds a Master with distinction in Applied Research Methods from the University of Dundee, UK. After completing her PhD at the University of Dundee in 2007, she first worked in social psychology on group identity in the University of St Andrews in 2008 and then in the area of Health Psychology in the Medical School of the University of St Andrews (2008 – 2017).  In St Andrews she strengthened her expertise on studying human interactions in medical settings and developed a keen interest to study human-robot social interactions, to which she is currently devoting her full attention.    

Martin H. Fischer is Professor of Cognitive Science, Chair of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Potsdam in Germany and speaker for the research focus on Cognitive Sciences at this university. After completing Psychology studies at RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1991, Martin worked in Massachusetts, USA, on human motor activity and eye movements. Following his PhD in Cognitive Psychology, he worked as a researcher at LMU in Munich, Germany, before moving to University of Dundee in Scotland in 1999. There, he worked for 12 years on various topics, including as human-robot interaction, before being appointed in Potsdam. Leading the Potsdam Embodied Cognition Group (PECoG), he has recently published the two-volume “Foundations of Embodied Cognition”.

Provides evidence-based empirical research on the emerging topic of robot sex Addresses the implications of intimate relationships between humans and artificial partners Discusses and provides counter-arguments to the objections against robot sex