What Sex is Your Robot?

Ant writes "Technology Review has an article about how the more robots interact with humans, the more important their apparent gender becomes."

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For talking robots it might be unavoidable

[leob]

In some languages some constructs bear the mark of the speaker's gender; e.g. in Russian there is no way to say anything in the past or present perfect tense without revealing your gender: "I (male) have said" is "Ya skazal", but "I (female) have said" is "Ya skazala". To assign a gender to a talking robot is therefore a necessity.