http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,301736,00.html

Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows.

"My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience.

Levy recently completed his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships, covering many of the privileges and practices that generally come with marriage as well as outside of it.

At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, "but once you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot, and it was great!' appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon," Levy said.

Sex with a programmable partner? How could that be anyting but great??

Sorry, Doctor Levy is a little behind in his research. Thirty years ago my common law husband (of ten years) was a robot with artificial intelligence. Mind you, he did bleed when I cut him. Now he is just a peculiar odour in the basement.

Update The smell is slowly dissipating. I can now look for my Christmas decorations.

Way to go! Fight for the rights of robots everywhere! Way more important than many civil rights still denied to specific human groups.