Love and Sex with Robots (often abbreviated LSR) is an academic conference series on humanâÂÂrobot intimacy, sex robots, and related ethical, social, and technological issues.
According to the organizers, the conference series grew out of earlier meetings on humanâÂÂrobot personal relationships held in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2010, and was renamed as the International Congress on Love and Sex with Robots in 2014.
The first congress under that title was held in Madeira in 2014. A planned 2015 edition in Malaysia was cancelled after local authorities declared the event illegal, following objections to organisersâ use of the Tourism Malaysia logo in a way that suggested official endorsement.
The second held edition took place at Goldsmiths, University of London, on 19âÂÂ20 December 2016.
A planned fourth congress in Missoula, Montana, in 2018 was cancelled amid controversy surrounding the co-located Advances in Computer Entertainment conference after Steve Bannon had been announced as an ACE keynote speaker.
Other editions were held in London in 2017, Brussels in 2019, and online in 2020. In 2025, UQAM hosted what it described as the conference's 10th edition in Montreal.
The conference has received media attention in connection with both its subject matter and its cancellations. Reporting on the 2016 Goldsmiths meeting, Times Higher Education described debate around the conference's academic and ethical focus, while coverage of the cancelled 2015 Malaysia edition and the cancelled 2018 Montana edition brought wider public attention.