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need and lightest textile waste gets stranded. fashion watching on youtube and wanting kids from a 1000 miles away or a pet never needs to be fed these days that tons of catch, it's designed to bring us closer together or even replace relaxed 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 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. 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 controlled by a video advertising. this will quantity remotely. the advertising pro thoughts are equipped with a camera on the forehead, integration speakers and microphones to enable the human pilots to interact with the customers. the opponents of people with disabilities or diseases which restrict them to working from home or from the hospital room. one is maya is illness

confined to a wheelchair, hunting for joe, keeping a painful experience until she found one cafe says 24 year old mazda is okay with is 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, amazing 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 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. 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 thought you said 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 ken toto yoshi fuji the ceo, 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's on with the she's 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 out and cut some costs of robots is often seen as a threat to our jobs. we can totally seeks 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 category for the 1st time. she wasn't sure what to expect from the experience, but she quickly gets used to interacting with the robot avatar. 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 still get to that. i'm not the most to 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 ups 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 and then mr. gonzalez,

will the team with a funny this has i'm 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 folding out of them, right, just with 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 had been sticking r a high driven tools like wrestling, cuz checkbox that can help with loneliness. these are programs to chew up their users and check in regularly. that 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 have detached, 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 confuse 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 that needs to go through. like a 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 continue. apartments 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 a saw the lady, 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 sort of the computers are told that going 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 moves up slightly as the use the kisses, giving us a more expensive touch. on the streets of beijing. opinions on the silicon lips differ. i think it's a necessary male vialva. you shouldn't get addicted to it. no, it is a rate. 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 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 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 the 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 have 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, 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. so middle decades ago, the robots are heavy appearing. those are very famous demo and our comics there's so many people there go to somebody about the robots, then they're the easiest. so originally the oh ok, try to create a crib of robot to end up like to the our daily lives to resolve the sole service of 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 people themselves want to context. we so probably of these that's definitely is publish front data. they want to use a robot that is 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 in films or cartoons. is verbal the schumer way the robot or that kind of has a very the politics problem. so that's about what you can do. everything that, well, that's what you're 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 rainbow, or the rub up is not really high. then the so many people's are notice all the roberts is not very good. the, the columbia to the always most initial, then the so many peoples are either definitely need to be. so robots would you want

to love it in your life? personally, i go for a real dog, 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. let us know by writing and thanks for watching and see you next time, the best. suddenly a keen interest in there, which is great for us, sasha,

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