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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. 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 firsthand 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 there were robots working here too. so most station to tables with a chat with customers, while others 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 abuse,

who apologies, remotely. the avatar robots 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 maya, who's gone this confines that to a wheelchair, hunting for a job to be in a painful experience until she found 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. it made me very sad and depressed. well, 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 work number or both. 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. a, when someone asks me when i'll be working next than what i thought was going on. my, as i grew 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, 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 went on 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 that much 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, there was no kind of that check in because how it goes to 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 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 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 see. okay, do you think that even not see, 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 kind of tight. 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 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 and then mr. gonzales 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 folding out for me to squeeze 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 r a high driven tools like replicas, checkbox that can help with loneliness. these are program to, to if they're 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 haptic 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 the kids. right? and it's not always possible to just hop on the train and visit your partner with now that's a device that could help so they can hear the synthetic needs. continue. apartments, kissed to you. the idea was full, enjoying the curve of 19 look down in china. long last touch of simulates, you're putting those little movements from us off the table. i related the essentially people will find the space and time again for emotional communication that to enjoy 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 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 the use the kisses giving us a more offensive 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 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. it learns from people's behavior similar to how a pet but it's a therapy, beautiful, 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 robots, then they're the easiest. so originally the old ok tried to create a degree of

a robot to end up like to the, our daily life to resolve the social service or social issues like an aging society and a 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 is because in sal this want to context, we so probably of these. that's the japanese punishment data. they want to use a robot that is set often 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 balance that's valid to can do everything that that's what's kinda working the hosp locks and also the can do the homework instead of just do it

hands on something like that. tomorrow, but the comments, particularly the rainbow or the rubber is not really high, then the so many people's are not this. all the robert's is not very good. the as compared to the all wise residential then to so many people's are either yourself or you 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, 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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