Scanned by: Accel Roseover 3 years ago Levy, a British
researcher who recently earned a Ph.D. from the University of
Maastricht in the Netherlands, believes that by 2050, robots and
humans will be able to marry legally in the United States. He
predicts that Massachusetts will lead the way as it did in 2004,
when it became the first state to allow same-sex marriages
between humans. As robots become increasingly humanoid in
appearance, Levy and other roboticists believe that people will
begin to have sex with robots -- as soon as 2011, says at least
one artificial intelligence theorist [source: Economist].
Physical attractiveness, coupled with the advances in robot
programming that will allow human-like emotions and intellect in
robots, could produce artificial mates that some humans will
want to marry. In fact, Levy told one reporter, it's
"inevitable"