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but it's actually about move. join us as we travel around your, facing the history of every day of that and that's something right around the world . and i need to talk to that just as subscriber id. listen to paul, gosh, that will take you along for the ride and warning kids from a 1000 miles away or a pet never needs to be fed these days that tons of catch, it's designed to bring us closer together or even replace real life social interactions. but can they really help against loneliness? that's all 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 interaction 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 elderly or people who are sick or disabled. a japanese man experience social isolation 1st time 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 to risk losing weight stuff. there were 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 video advertise to begin with this whole 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 opponents of people with disabilities or diseases which restrict them to working from home or from the hospital room. one is maya is known as

confined to a wheelchair hunting for joe, keeping a painful experience until she found the one cafe says the 24 year old mazda is okay with is always had applied to so many job software. i finished university, but i didn't get any offers. like google more. it made me very sad, amazing 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 so maybe you could say it was my last hope. okay, sounds good today. well, i feel grateful when customers have a good time with me. well, i think a, when someone asks me when i'll be working next to them, what i'd like to call them i,

i agree to know that that was the best the all i wanna say it makes me happy to know what i tell you that i'm helping people in some way too much to know your goodness. but they are not. they're going to go school. my. my social project was initiated by kintaro yoshi fuji the ceo, the star shop or a lab. it was his own experience of loneliness that inspired him to stop the business. 10 times spent a number of years in hospitals as a child, the and what the she's off on the home. i was away from school for 3 and a half years that that was okay. i remember always wishing i had a 2nd body from what you must because if i had another body, even if i was injured or hospitalized, you been, i could still participate in society. new. but in my 2nd body was still kind of that check on because how big the lines of robots is often seen as

a threat to our jobs. we can totally seeks to take advantage of the social potential of new technologies with us as 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. so you a bustle, think goose title like you raise visiting don't category for the 1st time. she wasn't sure what to expect from the experience, but she quickly gets used to interacting with the report. i have a task. i think it's a great project and i hope we can use this as a starting in point to expand on in the future in the stand for the moment to still keep doing that. i'm not i think it's hard for me to see the connections that have been made between people through verbal

not 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. but the experts want, it can also make us feel was especially social media. the filaments, as a sociologist 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. the o bows be continued, digitalization can help against learn. i know. we can find strange as to connect with online and then talk about how come an interest ups or troubles, or 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, come next and then mr. gonzalez, will the team with a 40 inches i'm 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 are predominantly cultivate digital friendships, may develop problems with real life friendships when i'm online all the time that can lead to me for them out of them just with the real world interaction out. and then that can reinforce social anxieties, which in turn promote learning that seems to push the room and they've got the constituents in r a high driven tools like wrestling, cuz checkbox that can help with loneliness. these are programs to chew up 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

processing and tired of this at what digital technology hasn't been able to replace . and this is very important is into personal have detached, physical contacts 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 that to the email to config. personally, i would always argue for strengthening real world into personal contact and oh yes, and i do it. everyone needs physical contacts, but not everyone has the same level of access to it to get a license to go through. like a physical contact is something people in long distance relationships also struggle with. i mean, nobody who call can replace a kiss. right. and it's not always possible to just hop on the train and visit your papa. but now that's a device that could help. so they can disturb synthetic loops, confirming your part in this case,

to you. the idea was born during the cub 19, looked down, some china long last touch of simulates, you're putting those little movements from a saw good. let's say to hire a lady that essentially people will find the space and time again for emotional communication that's. 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 a computer. i told them to use the device uses paid to the lips, shake machines and plug them into the charging for the smartphones, which they then use to video quote, it records uses costanza. 3 motion senses and sends it to the paid device. it even moves up slightly. as the use the kisses giving us a most basic touch on the streets of beijing. opinions on the silicon lips differ. i think it's a necessary male vialva. you should get addicted to it. no,

it is. all right, it's not some perverse toy. it's for private use, so there's no problem build up on the best. the device 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 west snuff a robot. nobody has googly, eyes swamped, attached and execute sounds like, but it's also pretty smart. cameras and sensors give a 360 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 on a robot program for companionship. since it's launched in 201910000 of them have

been sold in the country. nobody uses $0.50 that has to gauge its owners move. it learns from 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, talk on noted comments. studies how humans interact with various artifacts. as robots become more common, he's analyzing how our relationship to them is evolving. so middle decades ago the robots are heavy appearing. those are very famous among our comics. there's so many people there go to somebody about the rabbits, then they're the easiest. so originally the old ok tried to create to create a robot to end up like to the our daily lives to resolve the sole service of social issues like an aging society. and a lack of workers in a recent survey, professor comments as people in japan and the us how they would use robots and

situations which separated us from our loved ones. like the pandemic results underlying a higher affinity to robots in japan. u. s. people want to use a robot just as a tool to communicate to weezer how many is because themselves want to context we. so probably these that's definitely is publish 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 schumer way, the robot or the kind of the very, the politics felt like that. that's about what you can do. everything that, well, that's what, what's kinda working the hosp locks and also the can do the homework instead of just do it hands on something like that tomorrow. but the comments, particularly right though the rub up is not really high. then the so many people's are notice all the roberts is not very good. the as compared to the

always residential then to so many people's are either disappointed to be so robot . would you want to love it in your life? personally, i 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, and real life because even the small, just to con, completed, replace human interaction. what do you think? can tech ever really cure loneliness? auction would be prioritize in something else that is know by writing and thanks for watching and see you next time. the other 77 percent coming to you from one ro via checking on the relationship between

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