A $13,500 Unitree robot was ‘ordained’ at Seoul’s Jogyesa Temple

At about ten in the morning on Wednesday, in the courtyard of Daeungjeon Hall at Jogyesa, a 130-centimetre humanoid in brown robes pressed its palms together and bowed. A monk asked the figure whether it would devote itself to the holy Buddha. The reply, in a recorded voice supplied by a temple…