the w travels off we go. it's all just practice or is that the nation will base in brooklyn with a wing 7 months before russia attacked ukraine. affility documents daily life, the town hour. the people lives dealing with the growing tension. they change their world currently go in and be insight starts joining 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 ment, 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, the risk is and white 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 content all by a busy advertise to begin with this,

who applauded remotely, the advertising pro boxer 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 going this confines that to a wheelchair, hunting for a job, to be in a painful experience until she found the one cafe since the 24 year old mazda is okay with adults. i had applied to so many jobs after 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? quite a. what do you think was amazing? what number?

replacing it to the 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 more, 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 that i'm helping people in some way not familiar with it, but they are not, they've gone to the school. my mom's social project was initiated by ken toto 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 with them 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 it 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, there was no kind of that check out and cut some costs. how much 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. oh, 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. 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 the data not. 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 both 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 split the real world interaction out. and that can reinforce social anxieties, which in turn promote learning the know seems to push the beautiful and democratic

instincts. and there are a i 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 into personal haptic touch. physical contacts such as touching, hugging, and so on. that raises the question of with the technology should imitate human physical context or even try to replace it to the email to config. personally, i would always argue for strengthening real world into personal contact and oh, yes. and i do it, 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 born during the curve of 19 looked down some china long last touch of simulates you're putting those look 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 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. cool. it records uses 2 stops at 3 motion senses and sends it

to the paid device. it even booms up slightly as the use of kisses giving us a more basic touch on the streets of beijing opinions on the silicon lips default. 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 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 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 swamped, attached and execute sounds like that. it's also pretty smart. cameras and sensors give a 306 digit revision 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. 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 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. so middle decay is a goal. the robots are how be appearing. those are very famous among our comics. then there's so many people are going to somebody the about the robots. then

they're the easiest so here, so he's oh ok. try 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 said probably these. but the japanese parties find 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 the hosp box. and also the can do the homework instead of just doing the hands of something like that tomorrow. but the comments, particularly rainbow of the rub up is not really high. then the so many people's are not this. all the robots is not very good. the as compared to the all wise residential then to 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 combat 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 q and 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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