Contrarian point of view -- (edit) this clever device overall takes too much capital and solves no real problem, meanwhile pressing and urgent problems needing tech, remain unaddressed, year after year.
For centuries, real, physical actions in home life were improved with (mainly mechanical) devices subject to patent. The industrial revolution provides vast flows of consumer goods. Finance prospered (mainly) with loans, interest, and selling inventions like these, on large markets.
Fast forward 100+ years. Daily life is unimaginably easy, due to mass market goods for cheap, standardized living and generally, massive energy use. Markets constantly create products designed to be profitable given some game rules. Yet, there are diminishing returns. Vast, serious, ok yes urgent challenges face individuals and society, right now, and have been known for several decades.
An analogy might be the stunning success of mathematics in physics over the last 100+ years, sends multiple other soft sciences scouring math for certain curves or constants, because it worked for physics. Repeatedly, social science for example, is subject to physics-like curves and constants, searching for computable understanding, which is probably not appropriate to the endeavor.
The market is scouring product space, using formulas from long ago, to make the "killer" product. They say it here in the comments. This is to make money for people who are already very wealthy, using formulas that include massive diminishing returns (huge capital, you bet), and basically solve no real problem. Labor is over-abundant in modern times. People are living in isolation in Western Cities, and this is an isolation device. A very modest arrangement with a living person who needs work to earn money in the city, would solve the "problem" here, and requires no capital.
I suggest these talented, funded inventors look more deeply at the real ecosystem we are faced with overall, and get off of the gerbil wheel of get-rich personal consumption devices, because overall, societal survival actually does depend on tech right now.