A cafe where the robot waiters are remote-piloted by paralyzed people
by Cory Doctorow from on (#464GS)
Dawn ver.I^2 is a Tokyo cafe in Akasaka where all the table service is performed by 120 cm tall OriHime-D robots that are piloted by people who are paralyzed and work from home; it was inspired by a fictional cafe in the 2008 anime Time of Eve.
a-1/4 This video shows how an ALS patient, unable to speak, can use his eyes to type messages that can then be spoken by the OriHime-D robot.
a-1/4 And here another paralyzed man using a OriHime-D serves a coffee.
Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people [Master Blaster/Sora News 24]
(via Four Short Links)