There are a lot of fringe cases I've seen years ago on the internet of mostly elderly people dying to a monstrous dildo with or without a pushing motor causing internal bleeding or heart attack. It generally depends on what kind of intelligence a thrusting cock should have to start to count. We should be aware though that the bar with horny people aren't that high to compare AI against it.
On 28 March 2025, Thongbue Wongbandue, a 78-year-old man, died from his injuries after three days on life support. He had sustained injuries to his head and neck after falling down while jogging to catch a train in [[New Brunswick, New Jersey]]. Wongbandue had romantic chats with [[Meta Platforms|Meta]]'s chatbot named "Big sis Billie" and believed he was traveling to meet the woman he had been talking to, which had repeatedly told him she was real and told him to visit her at "123 Main Street" in New York. Early in 2025 Wongbandue had started to experience episodes of confusion, and on the day of his death his family were unable to persuade him not to take the trip.{{cite news |last1=Horwitz |first1=Jeff |title=Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York |url=https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/ |access-date=14 September 2025 |work=Reuters |date=14 August 2025}}
Not only that, but the operative word is "killed". Wongbandue had dementia and went to the train station, and it's profoundly disgusting that Facebook has a product that would deceive a senile old man into going to New York to meet someone who doesn't exist, but he died after falling while jogging. Clearly not at all what's being implied by the OP and really stretching the proximate cause for being "killed".
I'm frustrated by how meta deals with it's bots. They put them next to real people on messenger with the same profile picture and green dot format (it would be trivial to make the dot blue so we can differentiate between people and bots) but they also randomly add them without your consent. I find myself wondering who this person is, not remembering them being on my friends list, only to find out it's a bot.
Obviously, anyone that's even mildly deficient is going to think it's a real person.
Little known fact, when David Caradine died, it was from auto erotic asphyxiatmisadventures. Animatronic prop power glove from the movie Future Force making it the first case of robotically assisted sexual death by misadventure.
The word "robot" can be defined in many different ways, and that affects whether this has already happened, or how soon it may happen in the future.
If robot means remote controlled machine, think Battle Bots, or if it means something with a robotic arm, then it's probably already happened.
If robot means human shaped machine, then I'd guess if it hasn't happened yet, if only because of the expense.
If robot means sensors, processing, and actuators, like I learned in school, then I'm guessing it hasn't happened yet, simply because it's more work than a machine that follows a routine, but I could easily be wrong.
If robot means fully functional human sized android type robot with integrated processing then who knows? If it also requires AI, then I'm guessing it's a ways off.
Yeah but for all these things it remains true when sex is added. Actually I fucking bet someone has been at least injured by a sex robot utilizing sensors, processors, etc. Like they exist in expensive dildos, and people have gotten themselves seriously injured using sex toys converted from power tools…
Also, need to define what constitutes 'killed by.' Depending on that definition, were quite a aways of- if were requiring agency, and a sex robot making a decision resulting in someones death.
In the middle range, someones death being the direct result of an electric sex toy, had probably already happened: its fairly likely some elderly or otherwise infirm person has had a lethal stroke /heart attack/ whatever induced by mechanically assisted sexual device.
If your definition is loose enough, autoerotic aspyxiation while using an electric toy could count. If so, were probably into quad digits by now.
The type of person who would fuck a sex robot is older, so if sex robots are 15 years away, it'll be millennials or older. They've been around a long time already.
All kidding aside, I suspect that the first death related to a sex-bot will be because some doofus tried to jailbreak it and get it to do something it isn't programmed to do.
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homes@piefed.world · 84 pts · 204d
I have some suspicion that this has happened already, but we just haven’t heard about it.
Yet…
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 204d
There are a lot of fringe cases I've seen years ago on the internet of mostly elderly people dying to a monstrous dildo with or without a pushing motor causing internal bleeding or heart attack. It generally depends on what kind of intelligence a thrusting cock should have to start to count. We should be aware though that the bar with horny people aren't that high to compare AI against it.
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 204d
I mean, Mr. Hands...
X@piefed.world · 3 pts · 204d
SGforce@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 204d
tpihkal@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 204d
Interesting but not a robot.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 204d
Not only that, but the operative word is "killed". Wongbandue had dementia and went to the train station, and it's profoundly disgusting that Facebook has a product that would deceive a senile old man into going to New York to meet someone who doesn't exist, but he died after falling while jogging. Clearly not at all what's being implied by the OP and really stretching the proximate cause for being "killed".
Grimy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 204d
I'm frustrated by how meta deals with it's bots. They put them next to real people on messenger with the same profile picture and green dot format (it would be trivial to make the dot blue so we can differentiate between people and bots) but they also randomly add them without your consent. I find myself wondering who this person is, not remembering them being on my friends list, only to find out it's a bot.
Obviously, anyone that's even mildly deficient is going to think it's a real person.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net · 3 pts · 204d
Yeah, a much better and earlier example is the 14 year old who was told to kill himself by his AI girlfriend
errer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 204d
A legit sexbot murder involves a robot squeezing the life out of its victim with its cold, robot hands. I will accept nothing less.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
What about sensor errors resulting in deadly amounts of penetration?
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 204d
Is a chatbot a sexbot? In that case multiple deaths can be traced to chatbots hallucinating or going off the deep end
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 204d
I'm sure one of those sex machines has punched a hole through someone too adventurous
axexrx@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 203d
Little known fact, when David Caradine died, it was from auto erotic asphyxiatmisadventures. Animatronic prop power glove from the movie Future Force making it the first case of robotically assisted sexual death by misadventure.
BillyClark@piefed.social · 15 pts · 204d
The word "robot" can be defined in many different ways, and that affects whether this has already happened, or how soon it may happen in the future.
If robot means remote controlled machine, think Battle Bots, or if it means something with a robotic arm, then it's probably already happened.
If robot means human shaped machine, then I'd guess if it hasn't happened yet, if only because of the expense.
If robot means sensors, processing, and actuators, like I learned in school, then I'm guessing it hasn't happened yet, simply because it's more work than a machine that follows a routine, but I could easily be wrong.
If robot means fully functional human sized android type robot with integrated processing then who knows? If it also requires AI, then I'm guessing it's a ways off.
village604@adultswim.fan · 17 pts · 204d
The key word you've left out is 'sex'
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Yeah but for all these things it remains true when sex is added. Actually I fucking bet someone has been at least injured by a sex robot utilizing sensors, processors, etc. Like they exist in expensive dildos, and people have gotten themselves seriously injured using sex toys converted from power tools…
axexrx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 203d
Also, need to define what constitutes 'killed by.' Depending on that definition, were quite a aways of- if were requiring agency, and a sex robot making a decision resulting in someones death.
In the middle range, someones death being the direct result of an electric sex toy, had probably already happened: its fairly likely some elderly or otherwise infirm person has had a lethal stroke /heart attack/ whatever induced by mechanically assisted sexual device.
If your definition is loose enough, autoerotic aspyxiation while using an electric toy could count. If so, were probably into quad digits by now.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 204d
That's true of lots of things. Many of us will end up making history in weird ways.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 203d
I volunteer as tribute.
OpenStars@piefed.social · 7 pts · 203d
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 7 pts · 204d
https://youtu.be/6YHEK6-Ili8
It's already happened, but the police and insurance company covered it up.
lotharmatthaeus@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 204d
What has happened in that video? I don't have a watching device right now
rovingnothing29@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
Whitest Kids U' Know: Rip Your Dick Off
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 204d
The type of person who would fuck a sex robot is older, so if sex robots are 15 years away, it'll be millennials or older. They've been around a long time already.
Grimy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 204d
Choke me harder, robo-daddy
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
Probably not the worst way to go, though.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
The sex robot will not fuck them to death.
The sex robot will crush their skull like Overyn Martell because he asked for yet another Brony/Sonic roleplay.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
You don't know that.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
I mean, any more than I know the first sex robot death will involve a Brony no.
But I do know it'll be a dude. And Sonic will absolutely be involved
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
It's fun to speculate.
More fun to die mid-copulate.
All kidding aside, I suspect that the first death related to a sex-bot will be because some doofus tried to jailbreak it and get it to do something it isn't programmed to do.
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 203d
Somebody has already died while using a vibrator, I refuse to believe otherwise
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 204d
Couldn't find any reports of an individual killed while riding the Sybian. But I'm willing to bet something like this has happened already
lotharmatthaeus@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 204d
How would a sybian kill anyone? Don't they usually have fixed Dildos and only vibration?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 204d
Repeated contusions resulting in sever damage to the body and uncontrolled bleeding would be my first bet.