A robot monk.
(Image credit: REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon)

This week's question: A $1 million robot monk programmed to deliver sermons is now preaching at an ancient Buddhist temple in Japan. If the android were to author a book on robot spirituality, what title could it give the text?

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THE WINNER:“The Taominator”

Jeff Morris, Alexandria, Virginia

SECOND PLACE: “AI Ching”

TimMistele, Coral Gables, Florida

THIRD PLACE: “Ohm”

Stefan Vaughan, Eureka, California

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

“R2 Virtue”

Tom Sheppard, Flat Rock, North Carolina

“Be Ones and Zeros with Everything”

Ted McCutcheon, Coral Gables, Florida

“Silicon-fucius”

Rhonda Shield, Austin, Texas

“Roomba with a Pew”

Elizabeth Kent, Watertown,Massachusetts

"The Tin Commandments”

Ivan Kershner, Salem, South Carolina

“I, Abbot”

Paul Buchheit, Chicago

“Borg Again”

Jason Kuller, Washington, D.C.

“The Sermonator”

Stuart Burkhoff, Great Neck, New York

“HAL-lelujah”

Judy Lowe, North Sutton, New Hampshire

“Finding the Truth Bit by Bit”

Rob Lieb, Abingdon, Maryland

“Deus ex Macintosh”

Erin Mistele, Peapack, New Jersey

“Of Bytes and Zen”

Laurel Rose, Pittsburgh

“Connected to a Higher Power”

Janine Witte, New Hope, Pennsylvania

“Bot for the Grace of God”

Liz Armstrong, Yarmouth, Maine

“The Appipheny”

Jane Betrus, Spencerport, New York