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BuyersOf Emotional Robot Must Agree Not To Have Sex With It, report says
By Chris Matyszczyk
I feel for Pepper the robot.
More precisely, I feel for all the Peppers who are
about to go into the world and be owned by humans.
Made by Japanese telecommunica- tions company Softbank in col- laboration with French robotics company Aldebaran SAS, thou- sands of Peppers will soon be pep- pered across the world. The first wave of the robots went on sale in June and sold out almost instant- ly.
Each robot costs 198,000 yen (around $1,610), plus
additional data and insur- ance fees. Now a report has emerged that these sales come with strings attached -- for the robot's protection, you under- stand.
Pepper is supposed to be able to read emo- tions. Humans, though, can be impulsive and irrational. They can be twisted too.
So, as the Daily Mail breathlessly reports, Pepper's human owners must promise not to indulge in carnal relation- ships with it. Creating sexy apps is also a no- no, as is programming it to stalk others. Indeed, the actual clause is said to outlaw using Pepper for "the purpose of sexu- al or indecent behavior."
Softbank wasn't immedi- ately available for com- ment.
Sexbots, as my col- league Bonnie Burton pointed out, clearly have their place in society. Pepper, though, is a dif- ferent beast. It's there purely to be helpful, to react to human emotions and to be a true friend. It's not there for physical performance of any kind.
There again, the Web is full of, well, boys. Some self-regarding wag has already reprogrammed the tablet that hangs on Pepper's chest so that it displays breasts.
It would be understand- able, therefore, if Softbank was concerned about what humans might conceive in humor, anger or, Lord help us, lust. After all, just a cou- ple of weeks ago, a man was arrested for alleged- ly kicking Pepper in a Softbank store.
I do worry, though, about these first Pepper pur- chasers. They might sign contracts promising not to do all sorts of things. But how will Softbank ever know?
Once machines are in the hands of humans, anything could happen. Let's hope anything doesn't. For Pepper's sake, you understand. It might never be the same again.
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