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A company is paying someone €175,000 to let a robot use their face and voice

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

11:49 3 Dec 2021


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Fancy lending your face and voice to a new robot?

Promobot, a European artificial intelligence company, has offered someone £150,000 (over €175,000) to do just that.

The company want to make their robots super realistic. So, they want to base their looks off real people, with the hope of making them more lifelike.

You'd fit the role if you were over 25 and have a "kind and friendly" face.

The job includes taking selfies and making a 3D model of a persons face and body to be replicated for the robot's physical features.

Their voice will also be copied and used by the machine to be able to communicate with customers.

Promobot say they're developing tech in areas like facial recognition and speech:

"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."

The company has robots in a whopping 43 countries. They use them as administrators, promoters, consultants, guides and concierges.

The new human-like robots will be hopefully used in hotels, shopping centres and airports across North America and the Middle East from 2023.

Unfortunately though, they've now closed off new applications as over 20,000 people enquired about the role.


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