看完我都想賣(mài)臉了

If you’re short on cash and don’t mind selling the rights to your face, you can stand to make £100,000 by licensing your mug to a robotics company to be used on one of their humanoid robots.

如果你手頭緊，也不介意“賣(mài)臉”，你可以?xún)糍?0萬(wàn)英鎊(約合人民幣91.2萬(wàn)元)，只需要授權(quán)機(jī)器人公司使用你的面部作為其人形機(jī)器人的臉。

According to a recent blog post by London-based outsourcing company Geomiq, a robotics company is currently looking for a “kind and friendly” to put on a humanoid robot once it goes into production. This will potentially entail using this person’s face on thousands of robots around the world, so the company is willing to pay no less than £100,000 in licensing fees. The robot in question is designed to be a “virtual friend” for elderly people, and is scheduled to go into production next year.

根據(jù)倫敦外包公司Geomiq近期發(fā)布的一條帖子，一家機(jī)器人公司正在給即將投入生產(chǎn)的人形機(jī)器人尋找一張“友善的”臉。這張臉可能會(huì)應(yīng)用到世界各地?cái)?shù)以千計(jì)的機(jī)器人身上，因此該公司愿意支付不少于10萬(wàn)英鎊的使用費(fèi)。這款機(jī)器人的設(shè)計(jì)初衷是作為老年人的“虛擬朋友”，并將于明年投入生產(chǎn)。

Although Geomiq is not at liberty to disclose too much information about the robotics company or their current project, due to a non-disclosure agreement they’ve signed with the designer and his investors, but they did reveal that the client is privately-funded and has received investments from several Venture Capitalists as well as a top fund in China.

盡管Geomiq公司因?yàn)橐呀?jīng)和設(shè)計(jì)師及其投資人簽訂了保密協(xié)議而無(wú)權(quán)透露太多關(guān)于那家機(jī)器人公司和正在進(jìn)行的項(xiàng)目信息，但是他們透露這家公司是私營(yíng)企業(yè)，而且已經(jīng)收到了來(lái)自幾位風(fēng)險(xiǎn)投資家和一家中國(guó)頂級(jí)基金會(huì)的投資。

"We know that this is an extremely unique request, and signing over the licenses to your face is potentially an extremely big decision,” Geomiq stated, adding that interested people can submit a photo of themselves via email.

Geomiq公司稱(chēng)：“我們知道這是一個(gè)非常獨(dú)特的請(qǐng)求，簽約‘賣(mài)臉’可能是一個(gè)極其重大的決定。”該公司補(bǔ)充說(shuō)，有意“賣(mài)臉”的人可以通過(guò)電子郵件提交一張自己的照片。

The robotics company has reportedly been working on this particular humanoid robot for five years, and due to the secretive nature of the project, anonymity is of utmost importance. However, candidates with the right kind of face chosen for the “next phase" will be given full details on the project.

據(jù)稱(chēng)，這家機(jī)器人公司研發(fā)這款特別的人形機(jī)器人已有五年，由于這個(gè)項(xiàng)目的保密性質(zhì)，匿名是至關(guān)重要的。不過(guò)，臉被選中參與“下一階段”項(xiàng)目的人將獲知這一項(xiàng)目的全部細(xì)節(jié)。

So there you have it, while most sources warn of robots taking our jobs, here’s an example of robotics as an important, if somewhat controversial, source of income.

現(xiàn)在你知道了，盡管很多信息來(lái)源都在警告機(jī)器人會(huì)搶走我們的工作，這里就有一個(gè)例子向我們證明，機(jī)器人也可以是一個(gè)重要的(盡管有爭(zhēng)議性)收入來(lái)源。