How a robot cafe in Tokyo aims to empower – not replace – human workers

Japan is running out of workers. With an unemployment rate of just 2.5 per cent, a rapidly ageing population and declining ...
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Tokyo café staffed by robots offers job opportunities for the disabled

A café partially staffed by robots recently opened in downtown Tokyo, giving guests the opportunity to live out a sci-fi fantasy. It also provides jobs to those with physical limitations or ...
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Japanese Cafe Employees Paralysed People To Control Robots To Serve Customers

Tokyo: Japan, in its spirit of being futuristic in nature, has a unique café where robot waiters are operated remotely by people with severe physical disabilities. This novel venture, known as the ...
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Matt Renoux visited a restaurant in Japan with dancing robots

TOKYO, Japan — In the Shinjuku District near downtown Tokyo, tourists are packing a unique restaurant that puts dinner theater on a new level. It was a place Colorado resident Michelle Summers and her ...
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Japan Institute of Design Promotion to Announce the Good Design Grand Award 2021

Avatar Robot Cafe and Avatar Robot OriHime won the Good Design Grand Award as the symbolic design of the year TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Japan Institute of Design Promotion, the organizer of the Good ...
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Avatar robots are beginning to stake out their place in the workforce, and Japan is leading the way

Robots are increasingly finding their way into the workforce in a variety of sectors Kentaro Yoshifuji of OryLab is one of a number of entrepreneurs experimenting in the avatar robot field Yohsifuji ...