Are sex dolls the future of prostitution? Joel Golby heads to Barcelona to visit the centre of this strange battleground for the future of sexual politics. The dolls share a building with real-life sex workers, who compete for the attention of Barcelona's paying public. On the other side of town are the first signs of resistance against the sex dolls. Stephan, the owner of a traditional brothel, wants to maintain control of the market, spurring the world's first sex doll versus sex worker turf war. Overlooking all this from up in the hills outside Barcelona is the world's leading sex robot inventor, Sergi Santos, who — along with his wife, the self-titled G Spot Maker — is pushing sex doll technology to its limits.

The creation and deployment of sex robots are accelerating. Sex robots are service robots that perform actions contributing directly towards improvement in the satisfaction of the sexual needs of a user. In this paper, we explore the potential use of these robots for elder and disabled care purposes,which is currently underexplored.

Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox. Sex robots so realistic you can hear their heartbeat and breath are set to hit the market, Daily Star Online can reveal. This gives them their very own human-like heartbeat and breath that customers will be able to hear. But he said further plans are in motion to provide dolls you can talk to you, by hooking them up to Alexa or Siri.