OT turns out it is a twilight zone episode (replace "Alicia" with Aibo the dog, and "robot woman" with "robot DOG" and there you have it)
The Twilight Zone: The Lonely/ Probe 7 - Over and Out (1959)
"The Lonely" is the classic here, a textbook example of an effective Rod Serling TWILIGHT ZONE episode. Mr. James A. Corry is a convict who, as punishment, has been sent to an asteroid (which, in The Twilight Zone, resembles a desert that stretches "to infinity") for fifty years. As the action begins, Corry is languishing from loneliness. His head supplier, Allenby, takes pity on him and gives him a robot woman, named Alicia, for a companion. Though Alicia is "a machine," she looks and sounds like a human being. This makes Corry boil over with frustration and anger, since he desires her but cannot have her; he is "sick of being mocked by the memory of women." But when Corry learns that Alicia has feelings, too, a relationship blossoms. Jack Warden gives an intense, wholly believable performance as the convict, and the rest of the cast - including Jean Marsh as Alicia and Ted Knight as one of Allenby's crew - are a perfect team. "The Lonely" includes what has been called the most romantic scene in any episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE, that in which Corry and Alicia sit outside at night, gazing at and talking about the stars. Bernard Herrmann's musical score, which suggests the infinity of the desert and the emptiness a lonely person feels, sets the seal on a most satisfying episode
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