for social connection, but could end up making you feel more lovely. thank you so much for watching. i'm clear. richardson in for his name for me and a whole team. really appreciate you joining us. the words people have to say, that's why we listen. because every weekend on w a sites fully encounter in the late 19 seventy's former concentration kind of inmate slow. most my is not met the man who had to maintain him go stuff box 2 years later, voc now was dead. was it suicide?

he drives to down what really have the goldsmith banassi starts january 27th on d, w and wanting kids from a 1000 miles away or a pet that's never needs to be fit these days. that tons of. gotcha, it's designed to bring us closer together or even replace relaxed 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 the 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 couple who took here? 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 online video advertising policy remotely. the advertising pro box are equipped with a camera on the forehead, integration, the 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 the one cafe since the 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. 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? with the with you. it was amazing to work number 4, 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. when someone asks me when i'll be working next to them, what i'd like to call them i, i do know that that was the best the all i wanna say it makes me happy to know when

i tell you that i'm helping people in some way not familiar with it, but they are not. they've gone to the school. my. my social project was initiated 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 what's on with the she's on the home. i was away from school for 3 and a half years that i remember always wishing i had a 2nd body almost that much 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 also kind of that check in because how it goes to the victim of this kind of robots is often seen as a threat to our jobs. we can totally seeks to take advantage of the social

potential 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 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 see. okay, do you think that even not see, i think it's hard for me to see the connections that have been 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 kind of tight. 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 was 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 be 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 and then mr. gonzalez,

will the team with a funny this has 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 folding out for me to split the real world interaction out. and that can reinforce social anxieties, which in turn promote learning that seems to push the room. and i'm kind of pick and sticking, clint r a, i driven tools like replicas, checkbox that can help with loneliness. these are program to chew up their users and check in regularly, but 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 to 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 that to the email to confuse 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, no, would you call kind of replace the kids. right. and it's not always possible to just hop on the train and visit your papa. but now there's a device that could help. so they can synthetic loops, continue, apartments, kissed to you. the idea was born during the curve of 19 looked down some china long

last touch of simulates, you're putting those little movements from us off the table. i related the 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 the computer. i told them to use the device uses paid to the lips, shake machines and plug them into the charging ports to the smartphones which they've been used 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 of kisses giving us a most basic touch on the streets of beijing. opinions on this to the community. if 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, this 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 swamped, attached and execute sounds like this. it's also pretty smart cameras and sensors give a 306 digit revision 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 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 therapy, beautiful, robust, much like an emotional support animal. but can robots replace real pets or even humans. at tokyo's major university, professor tucker noted, 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. the robots are 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 originally the old ok tried to create to create a robot to end up like to the our daily lives to resolve the social services 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 to weezer. how many is because in sal this want to context, we said probably these. that's the japanese punishment that they want to use a robot that is set often met 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 about what you can do, everything that, well, that's what i want to work in a hosp locks. and also the can do the homework instead of just do it hands on something like that tomorrow. but the comments, particularly rainbow, or the rubble is not really high, then the so many people's are not this. all the robert's is not very good. the as compared to the all wise residential then to so many people's are either definitely need to be. so robot 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, 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 go for some 4000 pod cast fish

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