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every weekend on d. w. the interest, the global economy, our portfolio, g w business be here's a closer look out the project. to analyze the flight for market dominance with d w. business beyond the morning just from a 1000 miles away or a pet that's 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. there were robots working here too, so most stationed 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. 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 maya is known as confined to a wheelchair hunting for joe to be in a painful experience until she found the one cafe says 24 year old mazda is okay. what is the thing i had applied to so many job software? i finished university, but i didn't get any offers. doing them or 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 4, 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 tell you that i'm helping people in some way. but i still know your goodness, but they are not. they've gone to the school. my mom, the social project was initiated by kintaro yoshi fuji the ceo. the star shop or a lab 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 on because how goes to the victim of the 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 a 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 a bustle, think goose title like you raise visiting during 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 start 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 been 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 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 9, which are the ones on 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 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 of them, i just was real, real old interaction out. and then 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 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 going to 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 contacts, but not everyone has the same level of access to it that needs to go through. lack of 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 there'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 us off the table. i related the 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 to doesn't isolate people from one another, it makes people communicate more frequently and at a lower cost to try to compete with our tool that going to use the device uses paid to the lip 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 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. 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 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 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 via 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 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, talk on noted comments. studies how humans interact with various artifacts. as robots become more common, he's analyzing how our relationship to them is evolving to so middle decay is a goal. so robots are baring, those are very famous among our comics. there's so many people are going to somebody about the robots, then they're the easiest. so originally the old ok tried to create to create

a robot to end up like to the, our daily life to resolve the social services 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 in 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 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 schumer way, the robot or that kind of has a very, the politics problems. that's about what you can do. everything that, that's what, 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 right though the rub up 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 allies most initial then the so many people's are either disappointed to be so robots would you want to love it and your life? personally, i 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 prioritize in something else that us know by writing and thanks for watching and see you next time. the

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