Robots become new bodies for housebound workers in Japan | ABC NEWS
A Tokyo human-operated robot venture is allowing housebound people to join the tourism and hospitality workforce.
Using their new robot bodies, immobile people who would otherwise be unemployed can work as tour guides and wait staff.
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