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the free time, but still very much alive. your guy to the special ed in germany recognizes where exactly it was fun. i learned a lot of our culture history travel extremely worth a visit. the morning kids from a 1000 miles away or a pet 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 or

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 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 comfortable? tokyo looks like an ordinary coffee shop. a little aside, the rest 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. so if you into a policy remotely,

the advertising probe fonts are 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 my own, this confines that to a wheelchair hunting for a job, to be in a painful experience until she found the 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, i did talk 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 where the was do? it was amazing to wait for, 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. well, i think 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 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 initiated by kintaro yoshi fuji the ceo, the star shop or a lab. it was his own experience of learning us 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 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. with ken towers 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. so you 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 still get it that i'm not the most as t. 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 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 that 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 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, come next and then mr. gonzalez, will the team with a 40 this 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 are 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 i just with the real world interaction out . and then that can reinforce social anxieties, which in turn promote learning that seems to push them. and they've got the constituents in r a high driven tools like replicas,

checkbox that can help with loneliness. we use our 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 then everyone needs physical contact, 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 kind of replace the kids,

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 loops can bring your partner's kissed to you. the idea was born during the cub 19, looked down some china long last touch of simulates, you're putting those little movements from a saw good, let's say to hire a lady that 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. so it doesn't isolate people from one another. it makes people communicate more frequently and at a lower cost to go to a computer. i told 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 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 shouldn't get addicted to it. the whole life 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 as soon as 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 designed to serve as friends. a 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 execute sounds like this. it's also pretty smart. cameras and sensors give a 360 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 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 to 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. for so many decades ago the robots are bearing 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 is 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 to weezer how many is because themselves want to context. we so probably 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 about what you can do. everything that, that's what i want to work in a hoss works and also the can do the homework instead of just doing hands on

something like that tomorrow. but to come and stick with rosie. 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 always much less of them to so many peoples are easily disappointed to be. so robots would you want to love it in your life? personally, i go for a real dog, even if that doesn't and 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, completes, it replaced human interaction. what do you think? can tech ever really cure loneliness? auction would be prioritizing something else. let us know by writing and thanks for watching and see you next time. the

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