tune to for a shift with a look at digital loneliness, on marion adams, dean from me and the entire news team in berlin. thanks for the company. the questions got any issues with a lot say what the name is, the calls back saved loud. thank you. so much for joining in.

welcome to don't hold bad. a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it aloud . that's what it being nosy bay, like get everyone talking to healthy award winning called called the called back the morning 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 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 advertise to begin with, this will quantity remotely. the advertising pro box are equipped with a camera on the forehead, integration speakers and microphones to enable the human pilots to interact with the customers. 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 job, keeping 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. i do them 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 with you. it was amazing to work number replacing the 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, the more i thought i was going on my,

i don't know if it 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 the school. my. my 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 seeing us on their home. i was away from school for 3 and a half years that i remember always wishing i had a 2nd body. almost. 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,

can tire 6 to take advantage of the social potential of 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 a 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 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 still keep that that i don't 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, an 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 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 to continue 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, 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. 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 just with 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 i 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 have to touch, physical contact 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 that 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 really conduct this 3rd synthetic. let's continue. apartments kissed to you. the idea was full,

enjoying the curve of 19 look down some china long last touch of simulates, you're putting those look movements from us off the table. i related 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 quote, it records uses 2 stops at 3 motion senses and sends it to the paid device. it even moves up slightly, is the use of kisses, giving us a more offensive touch on the streets of beijing. opinions on this to the conflicts 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 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 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 50 sensors to gauge its owners move to learn some 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. so middle decay is a go. the robots are how be appearing. those are very famous. them on our comics. then there's so many people's or go to somebody about the robots, then they're the easiest. so usually the oh ok, try to create a degree of over about to end up like to the, our daily lives to resolve the social service or social issues like an aging society and the 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 separated 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 we 0 economy is because in sales we want to context. we said probably these, but the japanese parties find data. they want to use a robot that is set up to 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 problem that's about what you can do. everything that, that's what i want to work in 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 rubber is not really high. then the so many people's are the notice on the roads is not very good. the as compared to the all wise residential then the so

many people's are either definitely need to be so robust. 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 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 answer is the conflicts with sim sebastian,

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