{"id":85329,"date":"2018-11-30T16:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T00:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/this-robot-cafe-in-tokyo-is-remotely-controlled-by-disabled-staff-and-its-incredible"},"modified":"2018-11-30T16:42:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T00:42:57","slug":"this-robot-cafe-in-tokyo-is-remotely-controlled-by-disabled-staff-and-its-incredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/this-robot-cafe-in-tokyo-is-remotely-controlled-by-disabled-staff-and-its-incredible","title":{"rendered":"This robot cafe in Tokyo is remotely controlled by disabled staff, and it\u2019s incredible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cajsSXMjf_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Being waited on by robot is something that we all imagine might be possible in the distant future, but one cafe in Tokyo is already offering just that\u2026 with a twist. As <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90274223\/this-tokyo-cafe-is-staffed-by-robots-remotely-controlled-by-people-with-disabilities\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Fast Company<\/a><\/em> reports, a visit to the \u201cDawn ver.\u03b2\u201d will put you face-to-face with robot waiters that take orders from customers and deliver food to their tables.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all very futuristic, but the twist here is that the robots aren\u2019t powered by AI or some advanced automation system. Instead, they\u2019re controlled remotely by human staff with severe disabilities working right from their own homes. The cafe, which is the result of a partnership between the Nippon Foundation, Ory Lab Inc, and ANA Holdings, is already a big hit, and its creators have big plans for the future.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/11\/30\/robot-cafe-tokyo-disabled-staff\/\">https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/11\/30\/robot-cafe-tokyo-disabled-staff\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being waited on by robot is something that we all imagine might be possible in the distant future, but one cafe in Tokyo is already offering just that\u2026 with a twist. As Fast Company reports, a visit to the \u201cDawn ver.\u03b2\u201d will put you face-to-face with robot waiters that take orders from customers and deliver [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}