A cafe will open in Tokyo’s Akasaka district in November featuring robot waiters remotely controlled from home by people with severe physical disabilities. Photo: Kyodo
A cafe will open in Tokyo’s Akasaka district in November featuring robot waiters remotely controlled from home by people with severe physical disabilities. Photo: Kyodo
Robotics
Asia /  East Asia

New Tokyo cafe to be staffed by robot waiters controlled remotely by disabled

Designer of the robots says he wants to ‘create a world in which people who can’t move their bodies can work too’

Kyodo
Kyodo

Updated: 10:09pm, 22 Sep, 2018

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A cafe will open in Tokyo’s Akasaka district in November featuring robot waiters remotely controlled from home by people with severe physical disabilities. Photo: Kyodo
A cafe will open in Tokyo’s Akasaka district in November featuring robot waiters remotely controlled from home by people with severe physical disabilities. Photo: Kyodo
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