>>714115790It's not as far as some might think, but then again it's probably not coming in the next 5 years either unless there's a major breakthrough with General AI in the same vein as Google had a breakthrough with Attention (what spawned the AI boom a few years back).
t. robotics expert
>>714115897I tend to agree with the other anon. Probably not much.
People are already distancing themselves from relationships due to economics and career-oriented societies both for men and women.
Alternatively, both genders would opt for robots because they are (in theory) perfect with no downside or sustained effort and both men and women would buy them while only a small population would continue to propagate. Likely religious groups, contrarians, new-age hippies (whatever they'll look like), and absolute normalfags who currently thinks sex is the absolute best thing in the world and wears it like a badge of honor will continue to hunt for partners.
In short, I don't know, it could go either way.
What I do know is that
>decent priceis not going to be a reality for a long time, even if/when they get commercialized.
Think about a super expensive car as a starting point for the first decade and unless the current trend in services continues, you'd also probably have to pay a subscription fee on top of that.