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World Service,3 mins

Our intimate history with robots

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We’ve been using tools for longer than we’ve been Homo sapiens and our evolution is intrinsically entangled with our invention of technology. It’s not a huge leap to see that robots and sex have also been intertwined for much longer than you might think. Dr Kate Devlin, from the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London in the UK, explores our intimate relationship with robots. (Image: Couple and binary code, Credit: Getty Images.)

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