It would be a reasonable to combine the sexbot with other uses, such
as domestic help (the french maid or latino gardener? :-) which would
make it more cost effective. But if people have hang-ups on displaying
their sexbots (as seem likely given current morals) then there would
be a incentive to make ones domestic bot look as non-sexy as possible
(would keep down the price, but the same problems with high initial
costs would affect the domestic bots as the sexbots; multipurpose bots
are likely more cost efficient).
My guess is that it will take a while after we get domestic robots before we get sexbots, and exactly how they will look and be used will likely be quite path dependent. One could imagine hiding sexbots in closets, or even having transformer domestic bots (lots of possibilities for a transhuman sitcom :-)
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