one should have to make up your own mind, dw may 4 mines and wanting kids from a 1000 miles away, or a pet that's 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 the elderly, all 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 capital who? tokyo looks like an ordinary coffee shop? a little aside, the risk is in 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 apply, letting them 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. opponents of people with disabilities or diseases which restrict them to working from home or from the hospital room. one is maya is going this confine so

to room, chit, hunting for jobs and being a painful experience until she found to me cafe says 24 year old mazda is okay. what does the head apply to so many job software? i finished university, but i didn't get any offers. i do them or it made me very sad and depressed. well, you know, i did move and 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 aetna 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. when someone asks me when i'll be working next, the more i thought i was going to my, i don't know if 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. not familiar with it, but they are not. they're going to go school. my. my social project was initiation . by ken todo 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 with them with 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. almost. 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 also kind of that check out and cut some costs. of robots is often seen as a threat to our jobs,

can tire 6 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. 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 that that i don't not see. 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 kind of pay 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 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. so call me and then mr

. gonzalez, will the team with the following design. 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 the room and they've got the constituents in are a high 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 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 that to the email to confuse personally i would always argue for strengthening real world into personal contact. and oh yes. and that to me, 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 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 really conduct this 3rd synthetic. let's continue. apartments kissed to you. the idea was full, enjoying the curve of 19, looked down in china. long last touch of stimulate your partner's look,

movements from a saw, let's say to 100 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. so it doesn't isolate people from one another, it makes people communicate more frequently and at a lower cost to sort of the computer is hard for them to use. the device uses paid to the lips, shake machines and plug them into the charging for the smartphones, which they've been used to video quote. it records uses to start with 3 motion senses and sends it to the paid device. it even moves up slightly as we use the kisses, giving us a more offensive touch 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. oh, it is already. 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 se, 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 360 do for your 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 had been sold in the country. nobody uses $0.50 that has to gauge its owners move to learn

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. the robots are how be appearing. those are very famous. them on our comics. then there's so many people's or go to somebody about the robots. then they're the easiest. so emotionally, the oh ok try to create a degree of over about to end up like to the, our daily life 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 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 we 0 at how many it's because inside of us we want to context we, so probably these, but definitely is publish front data. they want to use a robot that is set up to 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, that's what i want to work in the hosp box. 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 the notice on the roads is not very good. the as compared to the allies residential then to so many people's are either definitely need to be. so robot which you want to love,

what 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 in real life, because even the small, just to con, completed, replace human interaction. what do you think? can tech ever really q and 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 monrovia checking on the relationship between this and, and how i teach,

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