A Serious Question,

would you sell the rights to your face forever?

that is the question that Russian robotics company Promobot is asking, photographs and story Promobot, the company is currently developing “a humanoid robot-assistant which will work in hotels, shopping malls and other crowded places,” and is in the market for a “kind and friendly” face to use on it, there are a few conditions, it will accept applications from people of all races and genders, with the ‘age 25 and over’ being the only requirement mentioned,

“Our company is developing technologies in the field of facial recognition, as well speech, autonomous navigation, artificial intelligence, and other areas of robotics,” a recent Promobot press release reads. “Since 2019, we have been actively manufacturing and supplying humanoid robots to the market. Our new clients want to launch a large-scale project, and as for this, they need to license a new robot appearance to avoid legal delays.”

I should mention that the contract also gives the company rights to the person’s voice, so the winner will also have to “dictate at least 100 hours of speech material” to create the robot’s voice, as it happens selling your face has been featured on our blog a couple of times, here in October 2019, and November 2020, this offer by Promobot just happens to be the latest one, the bottom line how much for your face? $200,000, now the bad news, Promobot stopped taking applications on Monday, after being inundated with offers, “Today we have received over 20,000 applications and our client has decided to suspend the request collection. We want to say thanks to all participants,” the Russian company explained on its website, note to self, next time try to be first in the queue.