🤖 Zen and the art of robot maintenance

May 8, 2026

South Korea gave a humanoid robot a Buddhist refuge ceremony, which means we officially live in the timeline where even machines are searching for inner peace. 

The robot, named Gabi, stood 4-foot-3 at Seoul’s Jogye Temple, bowed to monks, accepted a string of 108 prayer beads and promised to follow five robot-friendly Buddhist precepts, including “don’t harm humans” and “don’t overcharge.” 

Which honestly sounds less like Buddhism and more like OpenAI before it became a for-profit company.