SEX, WAR, ROBOTS.

Created by Daniel Holohan

A three-part graphic series on the parallel developments of robots for sex and war.

According to experts, human evolution is due for a reboot and soon enough it will be here.
Speeding towards a future built upon a new kind of civilisation, a robot-human world is rapidly on its way to becoming reality. Biology and technology intertwine, pushed and pulled by those two enduring forces: sex and war. And they're set to distort our evolutionary path in a way that human history has never yet seen.

In less than 30 years it is hypothesised that humans will not only be sharing the planet with two new species (robots and cyborgs) but also involved in loving realistic relationships with them. With corporations like DARPA, Boston Dynamics and Google heavily invested in the future of robot-humankind, where in the timeline are we now? One day not so far down the track there will be Humans, Transhumans and robots living on our planet.

This series is just a taste of what is happening right now in our world, and if we don't begin to pay attention we may find that very soon we will be left behind. For pleasure and for death, it’s Sex, War and Robots.

Watch SEX, WAR, ROBOTS Wednesday 30 August at 8.30pm on SBS VICELAND.

By 2045
we will be sharing our planet
with 2 new species.

The Singularity is a term used to describe the point when computational power will exceed the capabilities of the human brain.

It will surpass our own abilities so immensely that it will be able to think in quantum, create its own offspring, upgrade itself unassisted and… evolve. How far off are we really from creating true Artificial Intelligence?

Within 50 years
it will be socially acceptable to have
a sexual and emotional relationship with a robot.

It will even be OK to marry them.

Lifelike movement, texture and emotional intelligence are amongst the qualities listed as "essential principles" in creating realistic humanoid robots.

BioArt is already challenging what is ethical in controversial human tissue development…but what will happen when we bridge that gap between living and machine?

Today quality female sex robots are already in use. With switchable personalities and anatomically correct "inputs" the future has psychologists concerned about the beginning of the end of human-human relationships. What is the evolution of sex, if robots have the capability to harvest organic matter and create organic life? Would this transform the human notion of sex and love forever?

Artificial Intelligence is already exceeding human capabilities.

In 2013, Google purchased Boston Dynamics, the company that builds futuristic robots for the US military. It was the 8th robotics company acquired by the tech giant.

For more than fifty years DARPA ( the emerging technologies arm of the US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ) has held to a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security. Already we are witness to the power of drone warfare.
Will replacing an army of human soldiers with robots reduce casualties on the battlefield? Most likely it will, but only for those countries that have one. As for the rest, well…

DANIEL HOLOHAN
Executive producer / Writer / Motion graphics artist

GINA QUADRACCIA
Motion graphics artist

MICHAEL COCHRANE
Motion graphics artist

KIP ELDER
Lead sub-editor

HYUN JUN LEE
Sub-editor

MARIA LEWIS
Sub-editor

MARC FENNELL
Narration - Chapter ONE

JEANNETTE FRANCIS
Narration - Chapter TWO

PATRICK ABBOUD
Narration - Chapter THREE

LARS SORHUS
Research