SanTO in exhibition - a sacred robot in the profane

Trovato G.; Trevejo F.P.; Tordoya A.P.; Miranda L.G.; Polo L.R. · IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Communication, RO-MAN (2023) · DOI: 10.1109/ro-man57019.2023.10309448

Resumen

The last few years have witnessed a sudden increase interest in religion within robotics. Among the first robots of this domain to be developed, SanTO, stands as the first Catholic robot. Its redevelopment, called, SanTO-PL is also an animated statue resembling a Catholic saint. It has been placed first into a church for trial, then on permanent exhibition in a museum. This paper describes the robot and the reactions it provoked, which are far from what a supposedly sacred object would be expected to receive.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú