{"id":131712,"date":"2021-12-03T13:44:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/are-you-willing-to-give-up-the-rights-to-your-face-forever-if-so-a-robot-company-will-pay-you-200k"},"modified":"2021-12-03T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:51","slug":"are-you-willing-to-give-up-the-rights-to-your-face-forever-if-so-a-robot-company-will-pay-you-200k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/are-you-willing-to-give-up-the-rights-to-your-face-forever-if-so-a-robot-company-will-pay-you-200k","title":{"rendered":"Are you willing to give up the rights to your face \u2014 forever? If so, a robot company will pay you $200K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-you-willing-to-give-up-the-rights-to-your-face-forever-if-so-a-robot-company-will-pay-you-200k2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winning face must be \u201ckind and friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Could you use an extra $200K? That\u2019s what a Russian robotics company is offering to pay someone who\u2019s willing to surrender the rights to their face and voice \u2014 forever \u2014 for use in robot development. They\u2019re looking for a face that\u2019s \u201ckind and friendly,\u201d reports say.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/robot-company-offers-200k-right-use-one-applicants-face-voice-forever-1654153\" target=\"_blank\">report by Newsweek<\/a>, the company, named Promobot, is known for producing \u201chyper-realistic, humanlike\u201d robots. In 2019, the Promobot company launched the \u201cAndroid Robo-C,\u201d a made-to-order robot that could be modeled after anyone\u2019s appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the report said, Promobot is looking for a face as a model for \u201ca humanoid robot-assistant which will work in hotels, shopping malls and other crowded places.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winning face must be \u201ckind and friendly.\u201d Could you use an extra $200K? That\u2019s what a Russian robotics company is offering to pay someone who\u2019s willing to surrender the rights to their face and voice \u2014 forever \u2014 for use in robot development. They\u2019re looking for a face that\u2019s \u201ckind and friendly,\u201d reports say. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}