From creating a robot that can work on behalf of a physically confined person, to providing surgical services to indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest..
The Zayed Sustainability Prize has confirmed a total of 30 finalists who are now in competition for the 10 awards, across the five categories of Health, Food, Energy, Water, and Global High Schools.
When robots wait tables in cafés, they’re usually replacing human employees. But at Dawn Café in Tokyo, it's a different story. Here, remote-controlled robots enable people who can't leave their homes the chance to work.
TOKYO: A cafe in Tokyo is allowing bedridden citizens to work by controlling robot staff. The “Avatar Robot Cafe’’ says it is the prototype for the future of business, where people with disabilities, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, work as a part of the staff. These staffers, called pilots, remotely control avatar robots, called OriHime or OriHime-D. The aim of the cafe