Tokyo Robot Cafe increases employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Change in social attitude towards people with disabilities.

The Tokyo Olympic Games ended successfully, but the carnival of the sports is not over, and the Paralympic Games are in full swing.

At present, the Chinese team won 3 gold, 4 silver and 8 bronze medals on August 26, successfully winning 3 gold, 4 silver and 8 bronze medals, occupying the first place in the medal table with an excellent result of 8 gold, 5 silver and 10 bronze medals. The Paralympic Games give the disabled a stage for equal competition in every country, challenging themselves, surpassing themselves, and interpreting the spirit of competition, as can the disabled.

China's Dong Feixia discus F55 champion

The picture is from the official website of the International Paralympic Committee

In this Tokyo Paralympic Games, we not only pay attention to the athletes who are superior in strength and win honor for our country, but also found some heart-warming news. Just yesterday, the French Deputy Minister for Disability Affairs visited the avatar Cafe Robot Cafe in Tokyo.

Avatar Cafe

Robot Cafe? You shouldn't be surprised in front of the screen. In recent years, there is a lot of information about "robot coffee". As early as 19 years ago, NHK in Japan reported about "robot services".

Don't worry, listen to Da Ding slowly. This Dawn avatar cafe is no ordinary cafe. He opened in Tokyo's Nissahashi area on June 22, 2021, using a team of 4-foot mobile robot waiters to provide customers with coffee, tea, sandwiches, salads, rice and candy. Robots are not the most innovative part of the cafe. The people behind the robots are.

Behind these robots are people with social disabilities who can't leave home and can only work remotely.

How on earth is this done?

Let's take a look at this four-foot-tall robot-- OriHime-D.

OriHime-D robot

It was invented by Ory Experimental, which was founded in 2012 and specializes in the research, development, sales and manufacture of communication technologies. Ory CEO Kentaro Yoshifuji (Kentaro Yoto) came up with the idea of a remote robot avatar after struggling with his long-term medical problems for nearly three years, Time Out reported.

Each OriHime-D robot is equipped with a camera, microphone and speaker, allowing employees connected to the Internet at home to see and communicate with customers in the cafe.

Robots can move back and forth, turn, grab and carry objects. If employees need this function, they can even control the robot to do manual labor through eye movement.

The man behind the robot

The coffee shop is run by 60 people with severe disabilities such as complex diseases and spinal cord injuries to operate robots remotely at home and in the hospital. This time, the French Deputy Minister for Disability Affairs is a woman suffering from ALS (muscular dystrophy side sclerosis, or dystrophy). Through the tablet next to the robot, we can clearly get the relevant information about the service staff. Even remote communication gives people a sense of two-way "existence".

This is a bold attempt and a warm attempt. With the progress of society, we can see more tolerance and care for people with disabilities. There are also many cafes similar to avatar cafes that focus on people with disabilities in China.

At the Bear claw Cafe in Shanghai, the coffee maker is the deaf-mute and the person who hands the coffee is the person with facial burns. They pass coffee from the hole with bear claws and interact with customers with bear claws. Touch your head and wave your hands, simple and lovely.

There are five baristas in Guangzhou's Palm Cafe, three of whom are disabled. After professional training, people with disabilities can also provide considerate and considerate customer service.

A cup of coffee is a channel for them to communicate with the whole society, and to make a cup of coffee is to create their own social value. For centuries, society has regarded these disabled people as objects of pity. The general attitude is that these people do not have the ability to participate in or contribute to society and must rely on welfare or charitable organizations.

Nowadays, great changes have taken place in the treatment and attitude of the whole society towards persons with disabilities through various legislation and social changes. People have a strong support for increasing the employment of people with disabilities, and explore and create employment opportunities for people with disabilities from various angles.

Civilization is progressing, and stereotypes of people with disabilities should be broken. Social attitudes are important because to a large extent they determine the realization of the personal social educational and psychological needs of persons with disabilities.