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Russian startup Promobot is now selling autonomous androids — and buyers can choose to make the robots look like any person on Earth.
"Everyone will now be able to order a robot with any appearance — for professional or personal use," Aleksei Iuzhakov, Chairman of Promobot's Board of Directors, said in a press release, later encouraging people to "imagine a replica of Michael Jordan selling basketball uniforms and William Shakespeare reading his own texts in a museum."
Digital Immortality
Promobot's Robo-C can't walk, but its neck and torso each have three degrees of freedom of movement, according to the startup's website. Its face has 18 moving parts, which allow the robot to produce 600 micro-expressions, and its AI boasts 100,000 speech modules.
"The key moment in development [of Robo-C] is the digitization of personality and the creation of an individual appearance," Promobot co-founder Oleg Kivokurtsev told CNBC. "As a result, digital immortality, which we can offer our customers."
Order Up
Promobot told CNBC it's already taking orders for Robo-Cs and has started building four robot clones.
One of the bots will be stationed in a government service center where it will perform several functions, including passport scans. Another will be a clone of Albert Einstein for a robot exhibition.Robot