A cafe in Japan is using robot waiter controlled(控制)from home by the disabled.
The robots, about as tall as a seven-year-old child, send out sound and video over the Internet, allowing the disabled to control them with computers.
Engineers behind the project said that they hope to provide jobs for people who have difficulty in moving their bodies.
If it is successful, there will be a permanent(永久的)cafe before the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
"Everyone should have the freedom to work in the way they like," said Masatane Muto, an ALS patient and one of the leaders of the project. "I want to send out the message toward 2020 that you can show your friendly behaviour even if you have disabilities."
The cafe in Tokyo will open on weekends from November 26 to December 7.
They have also been used in classrooms by students who cannot go to school because of illness or other reasons.
"I want to create a world in which people who can't move their bodies can work too," said Kentaro Yoshifuji, the CEO of Ory Lab, the developer of the robots.
Ypshifuji had some illness as a child that left him socially isolated. He had to stay away from others. This experience drove him to study robotics at Tokyo's Waseda University in the hopes of connecting(联系)people through robots.
