the way of deciding opponents implies these i smell it. people think i'm crazy. i smoke because i'm thinking about body's weight. you know about my body's is ready. now my body is telling me that i can still see i'm ready now. ready for more success. and if that follows, the smile will shortly get even bigger. next up shift tackles loveliness in the digital age. that's also the break on bank as well. and i'll see you again, same time, same place to mark by the book. the environment. trends. technology come is digitalization style tops, new market, new media. the world is accelerating. sees the opportunity

to try new things, take flights with the that we use business magazine in germany, d, w. the rearing to read the not everyone who loves books has to go insane. the literature list, hundreds german must reads 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 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 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 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 video advertising. this will quantity remotely. the advertising pro blocks are

equipped with a camera on the forehead, integration speakers and microphones to enable the human pilots to interact with the customers, the pilot people with disabilities or diseases which restrict them to working from home or from the hospital room. one is maya is going this confines to a wheelchair hunting for a job to be in a painful experience until she found one cafe since the 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. like google more. it made me very sad and depressed. well, i did look a little bit 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 wait for busing to do that. 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 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 when 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 be the school. my mom, the social project was initiated by ken tiro, you'll, she 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 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've been, i could still participate in society new. but in my 2nd body was still kind of that check out and cut some costs of robots is often seen as a threat to our jobs. with ken towers 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. and then even if we become fedbid and we're unable to move our bodies back in, oh, you bustle, think goose title. i 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 board, 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 to still keep. did that even not the most as t. 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? it's a great example of how technology can help people connect with experts want it can also make us feel was especially social media. the deal meant 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 all

bows, the 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. and 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. and it's 9 which are the ones on the team with the funding was 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 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. and then that can reinforce social anxieties, which in turn promote learning that seems to push them and they've got to can stick

and r a high driven tools like wrestling has top box that can help with loneliness . these are programs 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 processing and tired of this at all. what digital technology hasn't been able to replace. and this is very important as into personal hectic touch, 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 then 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 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 hear the synthetic lips continue. apartments kissed to you. the idea was full, enjoying the curve of 19 look down some china long last touch of simulates, you're putting those little 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 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. cool. it records uses costanza 3 motion senses and sends it to the paid device. it even moves up slightly as we 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 cost, the equivalent of those you 5 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 this month to touch and execute sounds like, but it's also pretty smart cameras and census, give it $360.00 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 50 sensors 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 noted, coma studies how humans interact with various artifacts. as robots become more common, he's analyzing how our relationship to them is evolving to so many decades ago, the robots are bearing 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 usually the oh ok, try to create

a degree of over about 10 to apply to the our daily life to resolve the social service or 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 people, jim saelens who want to contact we? so probably these, that's the japanese punishment data. they want to use a robot that instead of to let 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 well that's what i want to work in a hoss box and also to can do the homework instead of just doing the hands of

something like that tomorrow, but the comments ticket on the 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 all wise residential then the 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 does make standing 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, replaced 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

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