interactions, but can they really help against loneliness? that's all a topic on shift today. the, everyone knows what it's like to be lonely. it's something we all have to go through at one point or another. but if someone switch, the social highlight is the interactions they have with a supermarket, cassia, then something is missing. they'll also many people who aren't physically able to just go out and meet others like the elderly, or people who are sick or disabled. a japanese men experience social isolation firsthand when he was a child, and he decided to make it his mission to solve it. don't cafe in japan's comfortable? tokyo looks like an ordinary coffee shop. a little aside, the risk is and white stuff. the robots working here too. so most station to tables with a chat with customers, while others move around to the printer. what is the customers who come to this

cafe? going to interact with the robots and the ones here, especially because they're not controlled by a online video advertising. will quantity remotely, the advertising, pro bouncer equipped with a camera on the forehead. integration, speakers and microphones to enable the human pilots to interact with the customers . the pilots of people with disabilities or diseases which restrict them to working from home or from the hospital room. one is maya is going this confines that to a wheelchair, hunting for a job, to be in a painful experience until she found doing cafe, says 24 year old mazda is okay with adults. i had applied to so many jobs after i finished university. but i didn't get any offers, doing them or it made me very sad and depressed. well, i did. i began thinking that i'd never be able to work with it. i was wondering

what should i do when i came across this pilot position? quite a with you. it was amazing to witness replacing it to the main one. you could say it was my last hope. okay, sounds good. the thing is that today i feel grateful when customers have a good time with me. when someone asks me when i'll be working next to them, what are the one of them i, i do know that that was the best the all i wanna say it makes me happy to know that i'm helping people in some way. but i still know you're going to, but they're not. they're going to go school. my. my social project was initiation by kintaro yoshi fuji the ceo of the star shop or a lab. it was his own experience of loneliness. it inspired him to stop the business. 10 times spent a number of years in hospitals as a child,

the and what the what the she's off on the home. i was away from school for 3 and a half years that i remember always wishing i had a 2nd body on it unless, because if i had another body, even if i was injured or hospitalized, you've been, i could still participate in society, new. but in my 2nd body, was the check out and cut some costs of robots is often seen as a threat to our jobs that can tire 6 to take advantage of the social potential of new technologies. they will assist you. and so we don't want to use artificial intelligence robots to make our work more efficient or to reduce the number of people. but rather to create ways we can work, even if we become fedbid and we're unable to move our bodies back in. oh, you bustle, think goose title? i'd like you to raise visiting. don't cafe you for the 1st time. she wasn't sure

what to expect from the experience, but she quickly gets used to interacting with the robot avatar. i think it's a great project and i hope we can use this as a starting point to expand on in the future and to you will keep doing that. i'm not the most se, i think it's hard for me to see the connections that have be made between people through the verbal notice. according to a nationwide survey on loneliness in isolation published earlier this year, some 40 percent of people in japan, at least occasionally feel lonely at this cafe robots help overcome social isolation. but for the pilots and for the customers. don't cafe is a great example of how technology can help people connect with experts want. it can also make us feel worse, especially social media, the filaments, as

a sophie ologist at cologne, institute for social research and policy. we put the question to what the digitalization is bringing us closer together or driving us further apart with one of our bows, the continued digitalization can help against learn. i know we can find strangers to connect with online and talk about how come an interest ups or troubles it can help us close the door in power because we no longer feel left alone without worries or concerns or in terms of our preferences. so call me a 9, mr. gonzalez, will the team with the phone or even suzanne? but the online world can also make us feel more lonely repeatedly comparing yourself to others on social media can have a negative impact on self esteem. and people who predominantly cultivate digital friendships, may develop problems with real life friendships when i'm online all the time, that can lead to me for now to practice with the real world interaction out. and

that can reinforce social anxieties, which in turn promote learning that seems to push them to view them and they've got to can stick. and then there are a i driven tools like replicas, chat box that can help with loneliness. these are program to trust their users and check in regularly that we shouldn't get too reliant on them. says dr. an addendum it's regularly communicating with real people is vital process to get tired of this at what digital technology hasn't been able to replace . and this is very important is into personal have take touch, physical contact such as touching, hugging, and so on. that raises the question of what the technology should imitate, human physical context, or even try to replace it to the email to config. personally, i would always argue for strengthening real world into personal contact and oh, yes. and then everyone needs physical contacts,

but not everyone has the same level of access to it. you to listen to them. that's who lack of physical contact is something people in long distance relationships also struggle with. i mean, nobody to call can replace the kids. right. and it's not always possible to just hop on the train and visit your partner. but now that's a device that could help really conducts the synthetic needs, confirming your part in this case to you. the idea was born during the curve of 19 looked down in china long last touch. it simulates your partner's look movements from a saw the lady, the essentially people will find the space and time again for emotional communication that to ensure that that's the best part. just like the invention of we chat or even the telephone to doesn't isolate people from one another, it makes people communicate more frequently and at a lower cost to go to the computer. i told them to use the device, uses pad 2 of the lips. shake machines and plug them into the charging for this

smartphones, which they've been used to video cool. it records uses 2 stops at 3 motion senses and sends it to the paid device. it even booms up slightly, is to use the kisses, giving you some more offensive touch the on the streets of beijing opinions on the silicon lips default. i think it's a necessary male vialva. you should get addicted to it. so what is that rate? it's not some perverse toy, it's for private use. so there's no problem in the best. the devised costs, the equivalent of 35 years. and in china, there's a demand for the se, clips in the 1st 2 weeks off to release at least 3000 devices, footboards and 20000 pre ordered robots design to serve as friends or companions are especially popular in japan. one of them is nobody from the what's not a robot. nobody has googly eyes this month to touch and mix cube sounds like that.

it's also pretty smart cameras and census, give it $360.00 degree vision autonomous movement and allow it to distinguish people from objects why a thermal imaging, but robots really be the pets of the future. in japan, these little guys have cost quite booster. we'd love a robot program for companionship. since it's launched in 201910000 of them have been sold in the country. nobody uses 50 sensors to gauge its owners move to learn some people's behavior similar to how a pet but it's a therapeutic role robust, much like an emotional support animal. but can robots replace real pets or even humans? at tokyo's major university professor tucker know to come up to studies how humans interact with various artifacts. as robots become more common, he's analyzing how our relationship to them is evolving. of so many decades ago the robots are bearing those are very famous that mind our comics. there's so many

people's or go to somebody about the robots. then they're the easiest. so originally the oh ok, try to create the cream of robots in to apply to the, our daily life to resolve the social service or social issues like an aging society and a lack of workers in a recent survey, professor comments as people in japan, in the us how they would use robots and situations which separate us from our loved ones, like the pandemic results underlying a higher affinity to robots in japan. ready us people want to use a robot just as a tool to communicate with their companies because themselves want to context. we, so probably these, but the japanese parties front data, they want to use a robot that is set often. but a robot, dog or cat, isn't like the real thing in generally, the robots of today falls short of what we've seen and films are cartoons. is

verbal, the assume i lays a robot or that kind of has a very the politics balance that's about what the can do. everything that, that's where, what's kinda working the hosp locks and also they can do the homework instead of just do it hands on something like that tomorrow. but the comments, particularly rainbow or the roberts is not really high. then the so many people's are. notice all the robots is not very good. the compared to the always most initial, then the so many people's are either definitely need to be. so robots would you want to love it in your life? personally, i'd go for a real talk. even if that doesn't mean cleaning up after it, it's great that we have robotic pets, chatbox, or chat rooms to help us connect and come about loneliness. but we clearly need to find the right balance. the goal should be to connect virtually and in real life, because even the small, just to con, completed, replaced human interaction. what do you think it can take ever really queue or loneliness? auction would be prioritized and something else that us know by writing. and thanks

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