Cafe utilizing robot waiters remotely controlled by disabled to open in Tokyo

[Judi Lynn]

KYODO
SEP 22, 2018

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

The cafe, which will be open on weekdays between Nov. 26 to Dec. 7, will deploy OriHime-D robots controlled by disabled people with conditions such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a form of motor neuron disease.

The robot waiters, 1.2 meters tall and weighing 20 kg., will transmit video footage and audio via the internet, allowing their controllers to direct them from home via tablets or computers.

At an event marking the OriHime-D’s debut in August, a robot controlled by Nozomi Murata, who suffers from auto-phagic vacuolar myopathy that causes muscle weakness, asked a family if they would like some chocolate.

More:
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/09/22/national/science-health/cafe-utilizing-robot-waiters-remotely-controlled-disabled-open-tokyo/#.W6XIJGhKjIU

[cstanleytech]

1. Sounds more like drones than robots but regardless I hope they have a

foolproof way to secure both the connection to the drones and the computers people will be using to control them otherwise someone could hack in and take control of them and I think the last thing anyone needs is for a hacked drone to attack a customer.