British Scientist Gets PhD For Thesis Predicting Human-Robot Marriages

Maastricht, The Netherlands (AHN) - The Netherlands's Maastricht University has awarded a British scientist his doctorate for a paper predicting that humans will someday marry robots.

In his thesis entitled Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners which earned him his PhD. David Levy wrote stated that the "trends in robotics and shifting attitudes on marriage are likely to result in sophisticated robots that will eventually be seen as suitable marriage partners."

His thesis deals on human attitudes toward affection, love and sexuality, but otherwise concluding that the findings are just as applicable to human interaction with robots of the future as they are to relationships between humans of today.

Levu said he based his thesis on about 450 publications in the fields of psychology, sexology, sociology, robotics, materials science, artificial intelligence, gender studies and computer-human interaction.