on it just 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 relaxed social interactions. but can they really help against loneliness? that's all the 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 ment, 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 you? 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 delivering 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 be honest, 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 illness confined to a wheelchair, hunting for joe to be in a painful experience until she found one cafe says 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, you know, 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. what number? 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 them, what are they going to my, i don't know if that was the best to do all. i wanna say it makes me happy to know when i tell you 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 ken toto. you or she, fuji, the ceo of the star shop, or a lab. it was his own experience of learning us. it 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 their home. i was away from school for 3 and a half years that i remember always wishing i had a 2nd body. 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 was the kind of that check out and cut some costs. the victim of this kind of robots is often seen as a threat to our jobs 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. so you bustle, think goose title. i'd like you to 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 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 says i own 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 was especially social media. the deal meant 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 f o both 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 be left alone without worries or concerns or in terms of our preferences. so come next and then 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 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 natural to us 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 doctor addendum it's regularly communicating with real people is vital processing and try to say what digital technology hasn't been able to replace. and this is very important is 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 config. personally,

i would always argue for strengthening real world into personal contact and oh yes . and then it's everyone needs physical contacts, but not everyone has the same level of access to it. to them that's who lack of physical contact is something people and 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. so they can do. the 3rd synthetic loops can bring your part in this case to you. the idea was born during the curve of 19 looked down, some china long lost touch of simulates your partners, look movements from a saw, let's say to hire a lady. the essentially, people will find the space and time again for emotional communication that to ensure 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 for this smartphones, which they've been used to video quote, it records uses to start with 3 motion sensors. and since that, to the paid device, it even moves up slightly as the use the kisses giving us a more expensive 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. now what is that rate? it's not some perverse toy, it's for private use. so there's no problem the best. the dishonest 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 is lumped attached and mixed cube sounds like this . it's also pretty smart cameras and census, give it 360 do for you vision autonomous movement and allow it to distinguish people from optics. 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. so middle decay is a go to robots or have be 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 that oh ok. try to create a degree of over about to end up like to the, our daily life to resolve the social service. 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. u. s. people want to use a robot just as a tool to communicate with their companies because themselves want to context weights are probably these. that's the japanese punishment data. they want to use a robot that he stepped off to

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 a 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 o as in robert, 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, most of this of them to 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? can tech ever really cure loneliness? auction would be prioritize in something else that us know by writing and thanks for watching and see you next time. the one of mankind's oldest ambitions could be within reach. what is it really is possible to reverse the researchers and scientists all over the world? for in a race against time,

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