Femmebot Version 2.0?

Just a couple of weeks after one team of Japanese researchers unveiled a female android that looks so lifelike it must’ve given geeks the world over throbbing hopes that their cold winter months might finally be warmed, a pair of other research teams on both sides of the Pacific have introduced the equivalent of cold showers.

Scientists at Tokyo University have apparently developed sensitive skin for robots! The thought of these teams combining their technologies has gotten the horn-dog geek community shaking in its boots. I can hear the collective sigh already: “You mean we’ll have to please them, too?”

Well, not exactly. Our friends across the Pacific aren’t the only ones threatening your future happiness.

A team of U.S. researchers announced today that they're working on a way to grow meat in a test tube! If the Japanese give their new femmebots even the most rudimentary artificial intelligence, once the female androids get wind of the development, they’ll no doubt learn they'll have no need for men, horny geeks or otherwise.

Is it possible to legislate limits on the size of test tubes?