{"id":7572,"date":"2025-09-19T05:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/robot-tour-guides-in-tokyo-offer-way-for-those-with-disabilities-to-work\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:49:14","slug":"robot-tour-guides-in-tokyo-offer-way-for-those-with-disabilities-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/robot-tour-guides-in-tokyo-offer-way-for-those-with-disabilities-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot tour guides in Tokyo offer way for those with disabilities to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In the business district of Tokyo&rsquo;s Nihonbashi, groups of tourists are on guided tours of the area. But rather than being accompanied by a person, they&rsquo;re being shown around by a shoulder-mounted robot.<\/p>\n<p>If all goes well, these bilingual human-controlled robots, conversant in English and Japanese, could become a common sight in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Created by robotics company OryLab, OriHime is a white robot with green eyes, weighing 4 kilograms. Equipped with a camera, speaker and microphone, the robot twitches its wing-like arms, which it can fold together as if in prayer when visiting a temple. The robot is on a stand attached to a backpack that positions it to rest on the wearer&rsquo;s shoulder, allowing the two to better talk to each other.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Robot tour guides in Tokyo offer way for those with disabilities to work<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the business district of Tokyo&rsquo;s Nihonbashi, groups of tourists are on guided tours of the area. But rather than being accompanied by a person, they&rsquo;re being shown around by a shoulder-mounted robot. If all goes well, these bilingual human-controlled robots, conversant in English and Japanese, could become a common sight in the capital. Created&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/robot-tour-guides-in-tokyo-offer-way-for-those-with-disabilities-to-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Robot tour guides in Tokyo offer way for those with disabilities to work&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}