Robots and the Revolutionary Loneliness Solution

The lack of human interaction may find the solution in a robotics laboratory. “Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ”      — Dag Hammarskjold Loneliness has always been the plague of too many, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only deepened this painful emotional state. Media reports and medical articles tell us that loneliness will be the reason for more deaths than in decades before. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness and social isolation were so prevalent across Europe, the USA, and China (10–40%) that it was described as a “behavioral epidemic”. The situation has only…...