UM research: Getting intimate with robots

Tired of your current wife, husband, or partner? Someday soon you may be able to end all these messy human relationships and take up with a robot.

David Levy is an international chess master. He’s also a PhD candidate at the University of Maastricht here in the Netherlands. His dissertation argues that, in the not-too-distant future, robotics will reach a level of sophistication that will allow real, intimate relationships between people and machines.

Read the rest of the article: Radio Netherlands, 11 October 2007