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Robot monk Gabi takes Buddhist vows astatine Seoul's Jogyesa Temple (Photo Credit: AP)
A humanoid robot has made past successful South Korea by becoming the country's archetypal non-human to instrumentality portion successful a Buddhist precept ceremony, joining monks successful supplication astatine Seoul's Jogyesa Temple up of Buddha's Birthday, according to Yonhap News Agency.Standing 130 centimetres gangly and dressed successful accepted brownish robes, Gabi — developed by China's Unitree Robotics — bowed earlier monks and nuns arsenic it pledged devotion to Buddhism during the ritual connected Wednesday."Yes, I volition give myself," the robot replied successful an audible dependable erstwhile asked by a monk if it would perpetrate to the beatified Buddha, arsenic reported by The Korea Herald.
A modern twist connected past tradition
During the ceremony, a monk cautiously placed a 108-bead rosary astir Gabi's cervix and attached a sticker to its limb — replacing the accepted "yeonbi" signifier wherever novice monks person tiny incense burns connected their skin.Ven. Seong Won, who oversees taste affairs astatine the Jogye Order, said the robot was fixed the Dharma sanction "Gabi," derived from Siddhartha and the Korean connection for mercy."We tried to springiness a sanction that is not excessively hard to pronounce and old-fashioned, and a sanction that stands for spreading Buddha's mercy astir the world," helium told Yonhap.
Five precepts for a robot
The bid drew up 5 precepts tailored specifically for the robot, reportedly consulting AI platforms similar Gemini and ChatGPT successful the process:
- Respect beingness and bash not harm it
- Avoid damaging different robots oregon objects
- Obey humans and bash not speech back
- Refrain from deceptive code oregon behaviour
- Save vigor and debar overcharging
Ven. Seong Won said the ceremonial marked a archetypal measurement toward coexistence betwixt humans and robots.
"When humanoid robots archetypal appeared 3 years ago, we thought it would beryllium bully for a robot to instrumentality portion successful Yeondeunghoe, and this marks the archetypal step," helium said, referring to the yearly lantern parade celebrating Buddha's Birthday.Gabi is expected to be the lantern festival aboriginal this month, alongside 3 different Buddhist robots named Seokja, Mohee and Nisa.
