Reading Mar’s article today, I find myself re-reading a collection of older articles and wondering about Kate Darling‘s work, sexbots, hitchhiking robots and Ishiguro’s androids.

Are humans more likely to kill/maim/rape/injure human-looking/-seeming machines over non-human ones.

• Alex Mar’s Love in the Time of Robots
• What Interacting with Robots Might Reveal about Human Nature
• Empathic Concern and the Effect of Stories in Human-Robot Interaction
• Articles on the sexbot ‘abused’ at the Linz art festival (Though I may hate to really understand what ‘normal wear’ is.)
• The demise of HitchBot