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08-27-2017, 11:30 AM
Robot performing Japanese funeral rites shows no one's job is safe
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When the robot apocalypse comes, robots will be there to say a prayer over your frail human remains, thanks to Japan's Softbank (http://mashable.com/category/softbank/).*
SEE ALSO: Elon Musk and 115 other experts ask the UN to ban killer robots in open letter (http://mashable.com/2017/08/20/ai-weapons-ban-open-letter-un/)
That's the message from this week's Tokyo Int'l Funeral & Cemetery Show (http://www.ifcx.jp/en/exhibitor/), where Softbank's Pepper robot (http://mashable.com/category/robots?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) demonstrated its ability to perform Buddhist funeral rites.*
Draped in traditional Japanese funeral garb, Pepper (http://mashable.com/category/pepper-robot/) not only presided over a faux death ceremony, it also chanted Buddhist sutras, taking over the usual role of a human monk during such ceremonies.*
So far, Pepper isn't actually performing any real funeral rites, but Japan's Nissei Eco (http://www.nisseieco.co.jp/news/3449) developed the funeral software for Pepper as an alternative when a Buddhist monk isn't available, or when the family can't afford the more expensive human practitioner (the service will cost about $450 versus the thousands of dollars usually spent for a human, according to (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/23/softbanks-japanese-pepper-robot-can-perform-buddhist-funeral-rites.html) CNBC).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/08/26/pepper-robot-funeral-ceremony-japan/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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When the robot apocalypse comes, robots will be there to say a prayer over your frail human remains, thanks to Japan's Softbank (http://mashable.com/category/softbank/).*
SEE ALSO: Elon Musk and 115 other experts ask the UN to ban killer robots in open letter (http://mashable.com/2017/08/20/ai-weapons-ban-open-letter-un/)
That's the message from this week's Tokyo Int'l Funeral & Cemetery Show (http://www.ifcx.jp/en/exhibitor/), where Softbank's Pepper robot (http://mashable.com/category/robots?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=) demonstrated its ability to perform Buddhist funeral rites.*
Draped in traditional Japanese funeral garb, Pepper (http://mashable.com/category/pepper-robot/) not only presided over a faux death ceremony, it also chanted Buddhist sutras, taking over the usual role of a human monk during such ceremonies.*
So far, Pepper isn't actually performing any real funeral rites, but Japan's Nissei Eco (http://www.nisseieco.co.jp/news/3449) developed the funeral software for Pepper as an alternative when a Buddhist monk isn't available, or when the family can't afford the more expensive human practitioner (the service will cost about $450 versus the thousands of dollars usually spent for a human, according to (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/23/softbanks-japanese-pepper-robot-can-perform-buddhist-funeral-rites.html) CNBC).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/08/26/pepper-robot-funeral-ceremony-japan/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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