I don’t think it’s more expensive to hire people for this work than to develop and produce a bunch of robots that are obviously not up to the task.

How could they ever be? Loneliness can only be adressed through sincere human contact. Any other (robotic) solution is financially wasteful at best and disastrously counterproductive at worst.

Let’s throw a clanker at a problem that obviously needs a human solution. What could go wrong?

Also: would it maybe be cheaper to just hire a human for this? Seems like the development of such a machine would be much more expensive that just hiring a guy.

Y’all guys would be fucked!