Love bots? Let's look at it this way:
A fleshlight costs about $60, right? Stay with me here. Now a realdoll costs, what? Something like $5000? That's five thousand dollars for fake sex. Now, despite the hefty price tag, she's no robot. Robotic limbs can cost something like $17,454 (yes, I'm using Google right now).
Put that on a frame, and you've got a "robotic realdoll" for roughly $90,000 for parts. Wow. Now hang on a sec, this is the good part! You don't have an AI yet. Some guys in Canada are working on one right now "Project Aiko" that can do menial tasks. I'm sure something like that would cost around $100,000 (my guesstimate).
But you don't want this baby to follow your finger, no! You want some cold, hard, artificial loving! So you get some sick-ass Japanese hentai programmers to reverse-engineer PA into a love machine (and it ain't gonna love anybody but you). That sound like a 4,000,000¥ (or roughly $43,000) job to me!
Total that up, and you've got yourself your very own love bot for the low, low price tag of $238,000! (Some assembly required, batteries not included. Two year warranty.)
So, with all that wait, you're shelling out almost a quarter of a million for the same thing you'd get if you take a pretty girl out for a $50 dinner and treat her like a queen for a night. So while you're making out with your Lucy Bot (PHILLIP. J. FRY.), I could just take that money and invest in a really, really sexy car. Preferably one that gets me real, warm, and interesting women that I could have a conversation with after The Deed is finished.
To quote Jersey from I Love Bees:
"Sorry, toots. For a quality experience the girls have to be real!"