And if by chance we are able to do that, i find it amusing why the author thinks that the robots will be our slaves anyway I find him contradicting himself. He is talking of them as sexbots inherently implying them to be following the orders of masters and yet takes it up as a case in future where they will be so life like so that they can be chosen as life partners.

Well, okay, in the beginning they would have no choice being, in a way, just sophisticated sex dolls - which, incidentally, have been around for years now and only underscore Levy's contention of how humans will have little trouble switching their ardour to high-end androids. Also, as British scholar Dylan Evans points out, as far as love is concerned it would be a one-way street. Without free will, robots would be inherently programmed in such a way that they would neither be able to choose nor reject a partner. In fact, some of them might face cruelty and abuse because of this.

But things will not always be like that. Circa, say, 2060 onwards as more and more progress is made in machine
intelligence, artificial emotions and the mimicking of neural circuitry, robots will become increasingly autonomous. At some point around this time they might even begin assisting researchers in advancing their own development. Then, dimly at first, yet inevitably so, an awareness of sorts would begin to dawn inside them which would ultimately bloom into full-blown consciousness, much like ours did when we transited from ape-like ancestors to human species.


Source : Article from TOI