It seems incredibly futuristic to imagine people marrying robots, but here is the clip of the Futurama episode I had seen on this topic. It is very comedic but perhaps it is one of those "fiction before fact" scenarios. Before our discussions I had never even considered it to be a tangible future issue. Robo-ethics is especially new to me. In my opinion, robots are circuitry, wires and electricity. To be honest I couldn't think of  why they would deserve rights at all, because where would you draw the line? Would I eventually have to hold a funeral service for my vacuum cleaner? It is interesting however, that perhaps we too are programed and we too are machines for living. The difference is our makeup, but you may consider our thoughts and feelings just circuitry and electricity, just in a different material. I would like to think that I am not programmed but I might also be a blank slate if I had never experienced family, media, friends, language or society. We call this learning, but it simply takes longer than an upload. If we are all defined by our parameters, and programmed by our life experiences what makes us different is that we can interpret each experience individually, where as each model of a computer might respond in an identical way. We choose to be offended, happy, or amused, which alters our programing. However you can continue the argument that our decisions are based on prior programming and a computer could do the same. It could go on forever.

Futurama: Don't Date Robots!