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The robot built from a living woman's memories

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Rather than just buying a nice anniversary gift, a tech billionaire commissioned an incredibly uncanny robotic head filled with her spouse's downloaded personality. BINA48 is an experimental, bust-like robot programmed with the memories, beliefs, and mannerisms of a living woman named Bina. It is a wildly ambitious, slightly terrifying leap into digital immortality and humanoid mind emulation.

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