You're Killin' Me, Smalls

When I gave up the nasty habit of smoking in May of 2010, my blood pressure eventually decreased to normal and so I was taken off of my blood pressure medication.
I fear that Alone Together may result in me needing to go back on the Lisinopril.
Turkle is now sharing details of her experiments with robot pets and the elderly. She is quite sad and upset that the elderly warm up to these robots and that it decreases their loneliness and agitation and makes them feel useful because, the robot isn't real and so they are being tricked. I must ask here: is the robopet tricking the elderly? Did the robopets show up on the doorstep of the nursing home, demand to be let in and then Turkle and her gang heard about the robotpet infestation and thought, "Let's go study what happens!" Or did Turkle and the students give the elderly the pets in the first place? She doesn't really say, so I am just asking.
If the robopets came to the nursing home on their own, yes, Turkle is right. The robopets are tricking this vulnerable group of people. If Turkle and her team provided ther robopets, I need to rethink my answer.
Turkle then goes on to say that sometimes it seemed as though the elderly just put up with the robopets so that they could talk to her "intelligent, kind and physically appealing research assistants." Another question here, do you have to be good-looking to be on Turkle's team? I'd never make it!
Well apparently at one nursing home, there was a lot of grief over the robots and "one young man in particular" - one that brought out "bawdy tones" from the female residents, so the nursing home said that they needed to discontinue the study. The robopets and the "intelligent, kind and physically attractive" researchers left. The residents were sad and alone again. Turkle says, "It was a depressing time." (page 105)
Bummer.
But wait, surely the researchers came back and volunteered their time at the nursing home, right? Giving love like only a human can, right? Isn't that what we should have expected?