Intimacy, Bonding, and Sex Robots: Examining Empirical Results and Exploring Ethical Ramifications

2017

Collection: Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (working title)
Publisher: MIT Press

Matthias Scheutz and Thomas Arnold

We present an expansion of our previous survey, the first systematic one of attitudes toward sexual interaction with robots. We find similar gender effects to what our first paper did, and we argue the results point toward intimacy as an critical area for HRI ethics to tackle, a broader area than sexuality alone.

@incollection{scheutz2017intimacy,
  title={Intimacy, Bonding, and Sex Robots: Examining Empirical Results and Exploring Ethical Ramifications},
  author={Matthias Scheutz and Thomas Arnold},
  year={2017},
  booktitle={Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (working title)},
  publisher={MIT Press},
  url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/scheutz2017intimacy.pdf}
}