Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby have had quite a range of guests on This Morning -- but never before have they had a sex robot named Samantha on the sofa. The topic of sex robots is an interesting one. These questions are addressed by Samantha's owner Arran Lee Wright and his wife, who highlight that sex robots are not designed to replace human relationships but rather act as a supplement. So A to Samantha the sex robot for making us think about the potential of technology, even if some might find her a little creepy.

I recently watched a movie called'Her' starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Set in the future the beautiful, strange and emotional story of a letter writer, Theodore Twombly (Phoenix) who, after separating from his girlfriend, downloads an intelligent computer operating system (OS) personified through a female voice, 'Samantha' played by Johansson. Director Spike Jonze conceived the idea of the film after reading about Cleverbot, a web application that uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to have conversations with humans. Twombly had quite simply created his'perfect' woman. He had answered a few questions; What gender was he?