Intelligent machines: Call for a ban on robots designed as sex toys

Such a use of the technology is unnecessary and undesirable, said campaign leader Dr Kathleen Richardson.

She believes that they reinforce traditional stereotypes of women and the view that a relationship need be nothing more than physical.

"We think that the creation of such robots will contribute to detrimental relationships between men and women, adults and children, men and men and women and women," she said.