Realbotix Has Tackled The Staggering Epidemic of Loneliness By Creating A $175,000 AI Robot Girlfriend, Programmed For Companionship And Intimacy

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NY Post - Researchers have bridged the gap between science fiction and reality by inventing a life-sized AI robot “to tackle the staggering loneliness epidemic.”

And the sexy cybernetic companion can be yours — for a cool $175,000.

The busty bot, named Melody, was one of several humanoid robots on display at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan. 7.

Created by trailblazing tech firm Realbotix, Melody was reportedly created in line with ongoing efforts to make robots “indistinguishable from humans,” the company’s CEO Andrew Kiguel told Forbes.

In accordance, the robo-pal is a dead ringer for a real person and can execute a variety of realistic movements and actions such as maintaining eye contact, evoking something out of “Black Mirror” or “Megan.”

While footage demonstrating Melody’s functions isn’t available, CNET did manage to interview her compatriot, Aria, a blonde bot in a black tracksuit which interacted through slightly herky-jerky movements and automated responses like a sultry animatronic Santa.

Realbotix robots are also “designed specifically for companionship and intimacy,” Aria told the publication.

Kudos to Realbotix for finally bringing to the table a realistic solution to tackle the staggering epidemic of loneliness that plagues our society. Men have given up trying completely when it comes to talking to women in-person. We barely bother talking to other men anymore. Thanks to the internet, there's no longer a need for it.

I don't know why anyone would bother facing the trials and tribulations of building real-life relationships when you have a perfectly healthy community of online adults to engage in thoughtful discourse with over the validity of another man's Chicago sports fandom. Why would I risk face-to-face rejection in pursuit of real-life intimacy when the level of porn on the internet far outweighs the quality of any sexual encounter I'm capable of achieving. For the price of one espresso martini, I can have exclusive access to the private nudes of a 10/10 OnlyFans model who I couldn't get close enough to sniff in real-life. And with a little imagination, I'll convince myself the personal messages she sends me are in fact from her, and not an absurdly pervy brother who manages her account.

Nowadays you can get almost all the community & social interaction you need without having to conquer the obstacles that come with your physical presence. Whether it's an unfortunate face, a pear-shaped figure, a bad case of bitch voice, or general lack of aura. Any of the perfectly legitimate reasons people might meet you in real-life and instantly decide, "No thank you", none of them matter on the internet.

But we've come to realize that even with the entire internet at our fingertips, there's still a level of loneliness that no amount of Reddit karma can make up for. And since younger generations spent their formative years living behind a screen, they never truly learned how to act in real world situations. Sarcasm aside, it's genuinely become a problem. It's pathetic really. People are so petrified of talking to one another, there's now a university in the UK offering classes to Gen Z students who suffer from "phone call anxiety".

There's other people out there trying to help as well. And by help I mean take advantage of desperate people. Master of relationships/alleged child trafficking rapist Andrew Tate teaches men to essentially change their entire personalities and be objectively worse humans in order to make women like them. I don't know if that's more of an indictment on the men who turn to him for help, or the women who his negging tactics are shocking effective on.

The Hawk Tuah girl has a new app called 'Pookie Tools', which according to its description is, "Designed to help at every step of your relationship, and uses Pookie's AI tools to assist you in making connections, enhancing profiles, and planning dates confidently". Because apparently people are so completely hopeless when it comes to relationships that they're willing to put their lives in the hands of someone who's claim to fame is making a blow job joke and stealing millions of dollars from her fans via crypto scam.

But thank god Realbotix is giving us a reasonable alternative to living lives of bitter depressing loneliness with their brand new hot robot girlfriend. We're too far gone to go back to how things were pre-internet. There's no point in beating our heads against the wall, trying to convince society to put down their phones and learn to be tolerable humans again. It was the internet that created this loneliness epidemic. The only way to fix it is by throwing more internet at it. If the human touch is the last missing piece people need to live a chronically online life without being cripplingly money, then we'll give them that human touch. Through the use of the most advanced, most expensive technology the world has to offer.

Gone are the days of people feeling sad about themselves, because at the end of the night they go home alone, while their friends go home to someone who loves them. Because they have a hot robot girlfriend at home. That's progress. There's nothing staggering lonely about that.

Although I regret to inform you. You cannot have sex with the robots. Well… I suppose that depends on how you define sex. The robots do not have working vaginas. 

“We’re taking it to a different level that nobody else is really doing,” Kiguel declared. “It can be like a romantic partner. It remembers who you are. It can act as a boyfriend or girlfriend. If you ever saw that movie Her, we’re trying to do that.”

But don’t think of going full sex machina just yet — hanky panky is not Melody’s prime directive.

“Melody does not have the functions of a sex doll,” a Realbotix spokesperson said. “These robots are more so for engagement and entertainment and building human connection.

However, they added that the company’s bots “can run any of the spicier programs and engage in adult conversations” as well.

Some of her components are replaceable, which could come in handy depending on her use.

Kind of a slap in the face for Realbotix to charge their customers upwards of $100k for a prude robot. I gotta think if they'd added that one simple feature, robot sales would skyrocket. They do however allow you to fully customize the robot's face. Which seems a little sketchy to me. People are being thrown in jail (in my opinion rightfully so) for creating deep fake AI porn of people they know. But if someone has a couple hundred thousand to spare, they could create a super lifelike replica of say, their best friends wife. I mean that's pretty fucked up. That seems pretty violating. Someone who does that at minimum deserves to be put on a list. It would certainly constitute a restraining order. Consider Lamar Odom.

That just feels like something we should maybe nip in the bud before these things became too affordable. Certainly before Realbotix adds working vaginas their product. But at least they've cured loneliness once and for all. I guess you take the good with the bad when it comes to "companion" robots.