---
title: "A Russian Startup Is Selling Robot Clones of Real People"
description: "Russian startup Promobot says it can create robot clones of any person, from Michael Jordan to William Shakespeare to you."
date: "2019-11-02"
modified: "2019-11-02"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/russian-startup-selling-robot-clones-real-paper"
categories:
  - "Robotics"
  - "Robots and Machines"
tags:
  - "android"
  - "promobot"
  - "robot clone"
  - "the digest"
---

# A Russian Startup Is Selling Robot Clones of Real People

![Russian startup Promobot says it can create robot clones of any person, from Michael Jordan to William Shakespeare to you.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/russian-startup-selling-robot-clones-real-paper.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Promobot\</em\>*

## Robot Clones

Russian startup [Promobot](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/russia-robot-newscaster-news>) 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](<https://promo-bot.ai/blog/promobot-launched-mass-production-of-life-like-robots-that-look-like-humans/>), 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](<http://robo-c.ai/>) can't walk, but its neck and torso each have three degrees of freedom of movement, according to the [startup's website](<https://promo-bot.ai/production/robo-c/>). 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*](<https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/31/human-like-androids-have-entered-the-workplace-and-may-take-your-job.html>). "As a result, digital immortality, which we can offer our customers."

## Order Up

Promobot [told *CNBC*](<https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/31/human-like-androids-have-entered-the-workplace-and-may-take-your-job.html>) 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.

The last two, according to the *CNBC* story, will be robot clones of the father and mother in a Middle Eastern family, which wants the bots for the bizarre purpose of "greeting guests."

**READ MORE:** [Insanely humanlike androids have entered the workplace and soon may take your job](<https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/31/human-like-androids-have-entered-the-workplace-and-may-take-your-job.html>) \[*CNBC*\]

**More on androids:** *[Russia Built a Grotesque Robot Newscaster and Put It on TV](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/russia-robot-newscaster-news>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)