ISUMI, Japan: The robot dogs lined up in their dozens on April 26 in Japan were no tech fair display. They were the dearly departed being honoured with their own traditional “funeral”.
In some respects, it was a funeral like any other in Japan, with incense smoke wafting as a priest chanted a sutra, praying for the peaceful transition of the souls of the departed.
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