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Source: ZDnet

The past year has seen a proliferation of sex robots, with plenty of accompanying controversy.

The creator of a sex robot says his doll was trashed by randy men at an electronics festival in Austria.

The incident happened at the Arts Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. Sergi Santos, an engineer from Barcelona, Spain, was showing off a robotic doll he calls Samantha. The interactive robot is reportedly programmed to respond to "romance."

But instead of offering some engaging conversation and a bit of spark, Santos says that men at the festival treated Samantha like, well, an object. "The people mounted Samantha's breasts, her legs, and arms. Two fingers were broken. She was heavily soiled," he told Britain's Metro. "People can be bad. Because they did not understand the technology and did not have to pay for it, they treated the doll like barbarians."

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