or, or from the apple app store, and that'll give you access to the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news. they're watching the they'll be in use to stay with us because coming up next is our show for all things digital shift with a look at how technology is replacing social contacts from robot. pets to silicone is since i'm monica jones from me. i'm the news team here in berlin. thanks for watching. the stopping climate change. that's what they're ringing for. several zones of the earth will become literally uninhabitable. today we're talking

about a few 1000000 refugees in the future. we're talking about the it's no longer a question of whether we get out of coal, oil and gas, but when to fund assume about commitment and hope about visions and the people behind the verb and catastrophe. climate change starts july 13th on dw, 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, 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 comfortable? tokyo looks like an ordinary coffee shop. at alongside 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. auditing them remotely. the advertising pro box are

equipped with a camera on the forehead, integration speakers and microphones to enable the human pilots to interact with the customer's 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 confined 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. what does the head apply to so many job software? i finished university, but i didn't get any offers, like google more or it made me very sad and 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 you? it was amazing to witness 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. a, 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 well. i wanna say it makes me happy to know when i tell you that i'm helping people in some way or not familiar with it, but they're not. they're going to go school. my, my social project was initiated by ken todo you or she, 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 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 that 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, most of the kind of that check out and cut some costs. rise of robots is often seen as a threat to our jobs. the ken towers 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 i 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 report advertise of the 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 still keep doing that i cannot 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 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 worse, 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 a 9, mr. gonzales. well, the team would have 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 not just with the real world interaction out. and that can reinforce social anxieties, which in turn promote lo, the nice things to fish doesn't, didn't, beautiful. and they've got the constituents. and there are

a i driven tools like replicas, chat box 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 processing of trying to say what digital technology hasn't been able to replace. and this is very important as into personal have take 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 confuse personally, i would always argue for strengthening real world into personal contact. and oh yes . and that room, everyone needs physical contacts, but not everyone has the same level of access to it to get back 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 there's a device that could help really conducts the synthetic needs, can bring you a 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 the, let's say to 100 lady the essentially people will find the space and time again for emotional communication that to enjoy the best the best part are 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 charter, the computer's 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 record uses 2 stops at 3 motion senses and sends it to

the paid device. it even moves up slightly as the user kisses, giving us a more expensive touch on the streets of beijing opinions on the silicon. let's gift 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 build 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

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 on a robot program for companionship since it's launched in 201910000 of them had 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 to 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 the oh ok, try to create a degree of over

a month 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 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 or companies 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. so that's about what you can do. everything that, that's what i want to work in

a hospital x and also the can do the homework instead of just doing the hands of something like that tomorrow. but the comments taken over the rainbow over the roberts is not really high. then the so many people's are the notice on the roads is not very good. the, the columbia to the always most initial, 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 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, 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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