Since Westworld debuted in 1973, we've been promised a world of consequence-free sex with robots. They're still coming, and PhD student Annette Masterson at Temple University has been studying their rise since 2018 and the unusual technologies required to make them happen. This episode made possible in part by the Digital Life Institute at Ontario Tech University.

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S01E03 Where's My Sexbot with Annette Masterson

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