Mothers Android Helper

When I wrote "In the care of an android" I set it decades in the future because I felt that it would be that long before we had the kind of general purpose intelligent autonomous humanoid robots envisioned.
Now I am not so sure.
We can all see the rapid development of ai and the leap in artificial intelligence required beyond that demonstrated to operate autonomous taxis in the most challenging environment of San Francisco is not great. But I assumed that the parallel development of realistic humanoid robots able to interface naturally with us would lag far behind. After seeing the experimental examples at the recent International Conference of Robotics I am not so certain.
So maybe my fantasy is not so fantastic.
I suggested in my story that development would be driven by the need to substitute care workers for the elderly particularly in Japan and this still seems likely but experience suggests sex workers will be an early driver, while current events point to their use as autonomous military.
Spanking machines have always been a popular subject and perhaps I need to write a second chapter bringing these more up to date.

Some real possibilities for stories involving AI or android spankings. For those interested in judicial cp how about prisons or legal systems where lawbreakers get spanked by robots or androids?
In fact it has already been done. There is an old Superman comic where Lois Lane gets soundly spanked by a robot!
Could even be a scenario involving a mass spanking since an android should presumably not be subject to human fatigue. Imagine a conservative community with an illegal nude beach-and a robot squad sent out to blister the bare bottoms of dozens or even hundreds of nudists!
Same with school cp. A neuter device does all the paddling, no need to worry about the propriety of pupils being paddled by a human of the opposite gender and perhaps no worry about having witnesses present.

There is a flip side to the technical development that would enable such scenarios: the widespread sentiment in modern society that even shaming is a bad thing (even when deserved) let alone corporal punishment. In a society where everyone is a weak and feeble victim requiring protection from even verbal taunting, I can't see how anyone would allow such a thing to happen. A person can't even chide another without fear of legal retribution.

In the USA, the conservative SCOTUS recently declared executions illegal. The Constitution forbids "cruel and unusual punishment" and CP via android would easily qualify as such a thing. So, considering the best sci-fi stories have their roots in reality so that the more far out aspects seem more believable, such stories while seemingly more technologically plausible are now less believable due to who we are now as a people.

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The serial I co-authored with IslandCarol called "The Gleam in Her Eye" dealt, at length, with CP being administered by robots - or erotobots as they were known in this series.

Well, cultural values do change and evolve, after all, plus the beliefs of modern culture concerning CP are quite different in varied parts of the world, and indeed even in contrasting areas of the U.S.A.

It's been decades since I read The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov, yet I do seem to recall that one family function of the humanoid robotic servants on the planet Aurora was to corporally chastise misbehaving children, although it's merely mentioned in passing.

That novel was copyrighted in 1983, well after 'permissive' parenting became popular in westernized nations... --C.K.

I believe this is only true for the discipline of children. I don't know of any significant belief in any area of the USA suggesting a return to using CP for adult lawbreakers. In the second post Redskinluver mentions quite a few adult CP scenarios and my reminder of where we are as a society was more in response to that than his later mention of CP in schools.

I recall only one spanking incident in the book. Azimov's robots all operate under the 'prime objective' of not causing harm to a human. In Robots of Dawn one of Aurora's best engineers changes a robot's programme so that, with some devious instructions, it will spank a human child. The inherent contradictions in its programme cause the robot to have a robotic equivalent of a nervous breakdown and is taken out of service.

Redskinluver

There as a comic where Lois Lane was repairing a young robot maid by way of a hairbrush and was caught by a social worker who thought it was an actual girl.

There’s a robot nanny in one of Moorcock’s books. She spanks a space pirate at one point, her programming leading her to believe that everyone she encounters is one of her juvenile charges.

With the ever evolving nature of AI, it seems only a matter of time before a machine would be able to apply the optimum number of strokes with the optimal force necessary to perfectly modify behavior...or to elicit pleasure...??