A cafe staffed by robot waiters controlled remotely by paralysed people has opened in Tokyo, Japan. A total of 10 people with a variety of conditions that restrict their movement have helped ...

The Mipig Cafe in fashionable Harajuku is among 10 such pig cafes the operator has opened around Japan. The first one opened in Tokyo in 2019. Two more are in the works for later this year.

I visited a temporary robot café, but it's not the type of Japanese robot café that comes to mind to most. Rather than a robotic show, this was a café where the robot waiters were in fact avatars for ...