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saying it aloud. next, would it be nosy bay like good. everyone to king. check out the award winning called com. so hold back. the morning kids from a 1000 miles away or a pet that's never needs to be fed these days that tons of gadgets 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 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 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 stationed 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 will kind of take them remotely. the avatar robots are equipped with a camera on their 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, who's gone this confine?

so to room chair, hunting for job to be in a painful experience until she found the one cafe says 24 year old mazda is okay with adults 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 and even 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 while to make it was amazing. what number are, but if you need to sit, 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. i feel like, oh, when someone asks me when i'll be working next, the more i thought i was going to my i tried to to know that that was the best the

all i wanna say it makes me happy to know when i thought you said that i'm helping people in some way, but i still know your goodness, but they are not. they're going to go school. my. my social project was initiation by ken toto yoshi fuji the ceo of 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 will come with the she goes on the home. i was away from school for 3 and a half years that i remember always wishing i had a 2nd body from what it must. 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, most of the kind of that check out and cut some costs of robots is often seen as a threat to our jobs. we can totally 6 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. oh, you bustle, think goose title like you raise visiting? don't cafe for the 1st time. she wasn't sure what to expect from the experience, but she quickly gets used to interacting with the report on the 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 state of political. and i'm almost to still keep this that i'm not i think it's hard for me to see the connections that have be made between people through robots 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 with experts. one, it can also make us feel worse, especially social media, the minutes 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 the o bows, the continued digitalization can help against learn. i know we can find strange as 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 a 40 inches on 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 full and not just with the real world interaction out. and that can reinforce social anxieties, which in turn promote learning that seems to push stuff. mm hm. and they've got the constituents in are a high driven tools like replicas, checkbox that can help with loneliness. these are program to to if they're users and check in regularly. but we shouldn't get too reliant on them. says doctor 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 as into personal haptic 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 confuse personally, i would always argue for strengthening real world into personal contact. and oh yes . and that room, everyone needs physical contacts, but not everyone has the same level of access to it. you 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 there's a device that could help. so they can do this 3rd, synthetic loops can bring you a part in this case to you. the idea was born during the curve of 19 looked down

some china long last touch. it simulates your partners, look movements from a saw the lady, the essentially people will find the space and time again for emotional communication that turns out 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. to use the device uses pay 2 of the live shake machines and plug them into the charging for the smartphones which they've been used to video quote. it records uses 2 stops at 3 motion senses and sends it to the paid device. it even moves up slightly as we use the kisses, giving us a more expensive 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. oh, it is all right. it's not some perverse toy, it's for private use. so there's no problem built up on the best. the device costs

the equivalent of 35 years. and in china, there's a demand for the site clips in the 1st 2 weeks off to release at least 3000 devices, footboards, and 20000 pre ordered. robots designed 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 swamped, attached and execute sounds like that. it's also pretty smart. cameras and sensors give a 306 digit revision autonomous movement and allow it to distinguish people from objects via 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 had 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 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. so middle decay is a go to robots or how be appearing. those are very famous that mind our comics. then there's so many people's or go to somebody about the robots. then they're the easiest, so usually the oh ok, try to create a degree of over about to end up like to the our daily lives to resolve the social service social issues like an aging society and the lack of workers in a recent survey. professor comments to ask people in japan and 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. u. s. people want to use a robot just as a tool to communicate with their accommodations because in sales want to contact ways of how many of these. but the japanese parties front data they want to use a robot that instead of 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 problem that's probably can do everything that that's what i want to kill, working the hoss blocks. and also the can do the homework instead of just doing the hands of something like that tomorrow. but the comments, particularly rainbow or the roberts is not really high, then the so many people's are the notice on the roads is not very good. the as compared to the all wise residential then the so many people's are either definitely need to be. so robot, which you want to love and 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, 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. let us know by writing and thanks for watching and see you next time. the cost by is the theme to electro mobility is the name of the game

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