A sexologist recently said something quite chilling: AI female robots, as long as they can meet men's physiological needs, in the next decade, marriage rates will plummet dramatically, and birth rates will also spiral out of control.

It's not a pleasant thing to hear, but if you think about it carefully, this logical chain is valid.
On June 2nd, Ubtech's "YouWorld" launched a bionic humanoid robot called U1 on their platform, with a male version standing 1.83 meters tall and a female version 1.68 meters. Standing next to a real person, they look quite similar. The official description is quite straightforward, saying it doesn't do housework, only emotional companionship.
The purchase threshold is just one criterion: it’s only sold to adults. The phrase "does not do housework, only companionship" clearly states the product's positioning.
Within ten days of launch, nearly 4,000 units were pre-ordered, with deposits exceeding ten million yuan—think about it, how many people are willing to spend this money to have it help with mopping or washing dishes?
U1 is equipped with a "cultivation-style" emotional large model that remembers your preferences, senses your emotions, and interacts with you through chat. It looks just like a real person. Once physiological modules are added in the future, that’s not a technical hurdle that can’t be overcome.
The concerns of sexologists are not alarmist. The marriage system has lasted for thousands of years largely because it binds together "sex + emotion + reproduction + economic cooperation."
Now, AI is first removing emotional companionship from the marriage and dating basket—if you're tired, someone listens to your complaints; if you don't want to talk, it quietly keeps company. Always gentle, never arguing, never fighting over property or bride price.
Young people already have weak motivation for genuine intimate relationships—high housing prices, expensive parenting, competitive workplaces. Now, with an additional conflict-free "perfect partner" option, some simply choose to lie flat and not participate.
Japan is a warning example: in the past decade, the fastest adoption of AI companions coincided with the sharpest drops in their marriage and birth rates.
Of course, don’t dismiss this as a disaster. Elderly people living alone and those with severe social anxiety do need emotional outlets. Technology itself isn’t inherently right or wrong.
But we should be alert—when capital aggressively promotes "cyber partners" as more healing and stress-relieving, society should also think clearly: how to preserve the attractiveness of real human relationships, and not let everyone hide inside algorithms forever.
After all, human interactions, though troublesome, are what make us truly human. $ETH