Robots are performing Hindu rituals – some devotees fear they’ll replace worshippers
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Robots are performing Hindu rituals – some devotees fear they’ll replace worshippersA robotic arm (below on right) is used to worship by maneuvering a candle in front of the Hindu god Ganesha.Monarch Innovation Holly Walters, Wellesley College It isn’t just artists and teachers who are losing sleep over advances in automation and artificial intelligence. Robots are being brought into Hinduism’s holiest rituals – and not all worshippers are happy about it. In 2017, a technology firm in India introduced a robotic arm to perform “aarti,” a ritual in which a devotee offers an oil lamp to the deity…