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.
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