This Tech Firm is Paying $280,000 For Having Your Face Imprinted on a Robot
A tech company is willing to pay $280,000 (PKR 3.5 crore) to anyone who allows company the rights to their face and have it printed on a robot.
This tech firm named Promobot said, it is gearing up to launch a new line of human looking robots but they want them to have friendly human faces, bringing them as close to reality as possible. For this reason, they want people to lend their faces to their robots. The company states that they want a 'kind and friendly' appearance, but they will be open to applications from people of all races and genders, but the catch is you'll have to be over the age of 25.
Company wants to launch their robots in North America and Middle East in 2023 before anywhere else for test purposes. The robots will be launched for customer care and sales hosting in the hotels, malls and airports, the friendly faces are chosen so that people don’t feel threatened on their experiences.
“Our company is developing technologies in the field of facial recognition, as well speech, autonomous navigation, artificial intelligence and other areas of robotics. Since 2019, we have been actively manufacturing and supplying humanoid robots to the market,” said the company.
Furthermore, it went on to say; “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.”
Any applicant who meets this criterion and is short listed for this purpose will have to take a 3D model of their face and body for the external features of the designated robot. Then “you will have to dictate at least 100 hours of speech material to copy your voice”, so that the machine can learn the ways a human speaks and try to mimic the accent as closely as possible in order to communicate with the customers and clients.
The ones to win that spot will have to ‘sign a license agreement’ to allow the company the rights to ‘use your appearance for an unlimited period’, after which the company can essentially use one’s face and voice forever plus the winner gets the $280,000 as promised, it’s a win – win situation.
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