A cafe where the robot waiters are remote-piloted by paralyzed people

Dawn ver. 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.

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.

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]

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