Humans might be able to marry and have sex with robots by 2050, according to this article.
And if that excites you, consider this -- theoretically, the hookups could start a lot earlier.
Last year, the founder of the European Robotics Research Network predicted that people could start having sex with robots within the next five years, and artificial intelligence researcher David Levy thinks that's still likely.
There are companies that already sell realistic sex dolls, "and it's just a matter of adding some electronics to them to add some vibration," he said, or endowing the robots with a few audio responses. "That's fairly primitive in terms of robotics, but the technology is already there."
I get R2-D2 in my bed first!
(And thanks to my friend Michael Timm, who gave me the link for this post.)
