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a new culture and in 15 minutes, let's say together, nicholas talks about community life on the server. research is now on 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 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 of you 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 to risk losing weight 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 video advertised. 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, whose illness confines that to a wheelchair, hunting for joe to be in a painful experience until she found the one cafe says 24 year old mazda. there's no clue what there's 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 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 while to look, it was amazing. what number replacing it to the main one you could say it was my last hope. okay, sounds good. in fact, today i feel grateful when customers have a good time with me. i feel like a when someone asks me when i'll be working next, the more i thought the one of them i,

i do know that that was the best to do 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 you're going to, but they're not. they're going to be the school. my mom, the social project was initiated by kintaro you or she, fuji, the ceo of the style 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 well, some of the she goes 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 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 was still kind of that check out and cut some costs are the kinds 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 our work more efficient or to reduce the number of people. but rather to create ways we can work and then 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 you for the 1st time . she wasn't sure what to expect. from the experience, but she quickly gets used to interacting with the board on the task. i think it's a great project and i hope we can use this as a starting point to expand on in the future in pretty good. i'm almost to still keep it that i'm not the see. i think it's hard for me to see the connections that have be made between people through verbal did on the

nother. 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. it's 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 have with a digitalization is bringing us closer together or driving us further apart. the o both the continued digitalization can help against learn. i know we can find strange as to connect with online and talk about how common interest looks or troubles. and it can help us close the door and pilot because we no longer feel

left alone without worries or concerns or in terms of our preferences. so call me a 9, mr. gonzales. will the team with the phone? he needs to sign. 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 amount of i'm going to 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 to can stick . and then there are a i driven tools like replicas, checkbox that can help with loneliness. these are programs to chew up their users and check in regularly, but we shouldn't get too reliant on them, says dr. unintended minutes. regularly communing, kidding. with real people,

this vital process to get tired of this at all. what digital technology hasn't been able to replace, and this is very important, is 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 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. you know, to them. that's like a physical contact. that's something people in long distance relationships also struggle with. i mean, nobody to call can replace a kiss. 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 do some fishing clips,

completing your part in this case to you. the idea was born during the curve of 19 looked down, some china long lost touch of simulates, you're putting those look movements from a saw the lady, the oppression. essentially, people will find the space and time again for emotional communication that to ensure that 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 charter computers. i told them to use the device, uses pay to the lips, shake machines and plug them into the charging for this smartphones, which they've been used to video cool. it records uses costanza. 3 motion sensors and sends it to the paid device. it even booms up slide, see use the kisses, giving you some more basic touch on the streets of beijing. opinions on the silicon . let's differ. i think it's a necessary male. we all, as you said,

get addicted to it. the whole life 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 cost of the equivalent of those 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. a 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 mix cute sounds like this. it's also pretty smart cameras and census, give it 360 degree vision autonomous movement and allow it to distinguish people from objects via the imaging. but robots really be the pets of the future. in japan, these little guys have cost quite booster. we'd love a robot program for companionship since it's launched in 201910000 of them have

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 noted, coma studies how humans interact with various artifacts. as robots become more common, he's analyzing how our relationship to them is evolving. so middle decades ago the robots are heavy appearing. those are very famous that mind our comics. there's so many people's or go to somebody about the robots, then they're the easiest. so originally the, oh ok, try to create a degree of over about 10 to apply 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 as people in japan and the us how they would use real lots of

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 font data, they want to use a robot that these set often. but 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 is a very the politics balance. that's what i want to can do everything. that's what i want to work in the hospital works 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. notice all the robots is not very good. the, as compared to the allies 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, and 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 specialties. so it's little unusual

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