# aibot: apropos of "Buddha Bots" ...

an << interesting insight into how people perceive blessing robots compared to other robots for more conventional purposes. >>

<< Robots are continuing to enter all sorts of social spaces and we wanted to critically investigate fringe uses, such as in religious contexts, >> Diana Loffler

Ingrid Fadelli. Investigating the implications of social robots in religious contexts. Jun 5, 2019.

https://m.techxplore.com/news/2019-06-implications-social-robots-religious-contexts.html

Diana Loffler, Jorn Hurtienne, Ilona Nord. Blessing Robot BlessU2: A Discursive Design Study to Understand the Implications of Social Robots in Religious Contexts. Int J of Soc Robotics. doi: 10.1007/s12369-019-00558-3. May 22, 2019.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12369-019-00558-3

Also

onda di blues. Nov 29, 2004.

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2004/11/1664-onda-di-blues.html