Sophia the robot's creator says humans will marry life-like droids who have civil rights by 2045

A leading roboticist says androids will share the same civil rights as humans by the year 2045, including the right to marry both people and other robots. That's the claim made by Dr David Hanson, creator of some of world's most advanced and recognisable androids, including Sophia. Dr Hanson believes that by 2029 android AI will match the intelligence of a one-year old human. This will open the door for androids to assume menial positions in the military and emergency services just two years later in 2031, leading to full rights a decade later. Dr Hanson, whose Hong Kong based Hanson Robotics is behind the engineering of his robotic creations, makes the claims in a newly published research paper entitled Entering The Age of Living Intelligent Systems and Android Society.