Robot Monk Xian'er
Robot Monk Xian'er (Chinese: 贤二机器僧) is a humanoid robot based on the cartoon character Xian'er. It was developed by a team of monks, volunteers and AI experts from Beijing Longquan Monastery in Beijing, China. [1] He can follow human instructions to make body movements, read scriptures and play Buddhist music. He can chat and respond to people's emotional and spiritual questions with Buddhist wisdom. As a chatbot, Robot Monk Xian'er is available on certain public platforms including Wechat[2][3] and Facebook. Over the years, master Xuecheng, the abbot of Beijing Longquan Monastery, replied to thousands of questions on Sina Weibo[4]. These questions and their answers become the data source of the chatbot.Robot Monk Xian’er is produced based on the prototype of the comic image Xian’er. It is an intelligent robot jointly created by monastics, volunteers and experts in artificial intelligence at Cartoon & Animation Center of Beijing Longquan Monastery.22 He has a perceptual function and can be instructed to make appropriate body movements, recite scriptures and play Buddhist music, etc. Robot Monk Xian’er is known as the "Siri" in the Buddhist circle because he talks to and chats with people according to the Buddha’s teachings, answering questions quite intelligently.
References
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