{"id":10595,"date":"2026-03-19T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/?p=10595"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:54:56","slug":"queering-sex-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/?p=10595","title":{"rendered":"Queering Sex Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13347-026-01037-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> titled &#8222;Beyond Diversifying Design? Insights from Queer Lacanian Psychoanalysis and New Materialism&#8220; (van der Horst &amp; Puzio, 2026) has been published in Philosophy &amp; Technology. The authors argue that queering sex robots should go beyond diversifying their physical design and instead involve a broader reconsideration of sexuality, identity, and human-technology relations. The paper starts from a critique widely discussed in the literature: current sex robot models largely reproduce heteronormative and stereotypical representations of femininity. Similar observations and related arguments can be found in earlier contributions in the volume &#8222;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-658-29864-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maschinenliebe<\/a>&#8220; (Bendel 2020). In that book, Tanja Kubes addresses the topic in her chapter &#8222;Queere Sexroboter&#8220;, while Oliver Bendel discusses transformations of gender and embodiment in &#8222;Trans-Formers&#8220;. Both contributions also refer to examples such as the Harmony robot from Realbotix\/RealDollX. The main novelty of the new article lies in its theoretical framework, which combines Queer Lacanian psychoanalysis and New Materialism. Given the thematic overlap and the small number of publications on queer perspectives on sex robots, it is somewhat surprising that the earlier contributions in &#8222;Maschinenliebe&#8220; are not referenced. This book is predominantly written in German, but in times of large language models this should hardly pose a barrier. Moreover, the chapters by Kubes and Bendel have already been cited in several English-language academic publications.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Queer_Girl.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Queer_Girl.png 800w, https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Queer_Girl-183x300.png 183w, https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Queer_Girl-623x1024.png 623w, https:\/\/www.maschinenethik.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Queer_Girl-768x1261.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fig.: Maybe a queer person<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new article titled &#8222;Beyond Diversifying Design? 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