A flood of applicants to the robot company 'Buy your face and voice for 22 million yen'



When the robot company

Promobot solicited models of humanoid robots working in shopping malls for $ 200,000 (about 22 million yen), more than 20,000 applications were flooded.

Tech firm will pay you £ 150,000 to sell your identity to its robots | Metro News
https://metro.co.uk/2021/11/29/tech-firm-will-pay-you-150000-to-sell-your-identity-to-its-robots-15681961/

Robotics Startup Offers $ 200,000 for to Make Robots With Your Face and Voice --Voicebot.ai
https://voicebot.ai/2021/11/29/robotics-startup-offers-200000-for-to-make-robots-with-your-face-and-voice/

Founded in Russia, Promobot is a company that manufactures robots for guidance and visitor reception at amusement facilities. The company's robot equipped with AI can act autonomously and talk with visitors and guide people at its own discretion.



The British news media Metro UK reported on November 29, 2021 that Promobot is looking for a 'kind and friendly face' to be mounted on humanoid assistant robots. The recruited applicants will first receive a scan of the face and body 3D model used for the robot's body, and then record at least 100 hours of speech to copy the voice. Applicants will then be paid a $ 200,000 reward in lieu of signing a permanent face and voice license agreement for the company's robots.

There are no restrictions on application such as gender or race, and anyone over the age of 25 can apply, but if you access the link where the company's press release was posted at the time of writing the article, 'We have received more than 20,000 applications, so we have decided to suspend the recruitment. We thank everyone who accepted the participation.' The number of applicants exceeded expectations, so we are urgently recruiting. Only the text that indicates that the deadline has been posted is posted. The robot with the face of the hired applicant is scheduled to start operation in 2023 at the earliest.

If you watch the following movie, you can see the state of the humanoid robot 'Robo-C' that the company has already commercialized.

Humanoid Robot Robo-C | Promobot --YouTube


This is Promobot's Robo-C.



You can move your hands freely ...



You can move your eyes and mouth like a human, but

the shape of the uncanny valley is a little hard to say as a 'kind and friendly face.' I would like to expect what kind of face and voice the new robot created in the project for which models were recruited will appear in 2023.

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