Is this the funeral procession?
A “civil servant robot” in a South Korean town is the subject of (we are told) “a wave of mourning and curiosity across the nation”–after it apparently, um, “committed suicide” by throwing itself down a flight of stairs (https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robot-commits-suicide-south-korea). We are also told the incident has “shocked the world.”
The speculation is that the robot’s workload had become too much for it, leading to an “emotional breakdown”–
Wait! Stop! This is not the Babylon Bee, it only seems like a put-on. Then again, South Korea is a culture very different from ours. Maybe someone in South Korea will volunteer some insight. I mean gee, this can’t be what it looks like!
“A wave of mourning” for a machine. “Across the nation, no less.”
The young family of parents and three daughters sits in the pew in front of us at church every Sunday. They just got back from South Korea where their oldest daughter is going to college. I’ll ask them about the prevalence of robots in Seoul.
I’ll be interested in what they say.