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Research project promises immortality to billionaires
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
Money can't buy health, but it may soon buy eternal life. A Russian research project promises billionaires the chance to transplant their brains into robot bodies.
Russian media manager Dmitry Itskov heads the research project "Avatar 2045", which has already contacted some of the richest people from the Forbes rating. Billionaires are invited to finance research that could potentially lead to human immortality. However, it will not be available to everyone, but only to those who can pay generously for it.
31-year-old Itskov hired 30 scientists to solve the problem of transplanting a human brain into a robot body. It is expected that the first such operation will be carried out in 10 years. Moreover, Itskov himself is absolutely convinced that this is a completely feasible task, he is ready to start a scientific discussion with any skeptics. And Dmitry does not see any ethical problems in his actions either.
"You have the ability to finance the continuation of your life for as long as you want, up to and including immortality," the head of "Avatar" writes in his appeals to billionaires. "Our civilization has already come very close to creating such technologies. This is no longer science fiction. It is in your power to ensure that the goal is achieved in the foreseeable future, during your lifetime."
Avatar is planning to open an office in San Francisco this summer. A social project will also be launched, connecting scientists around the world. The 2045 group is working on creating an international research center where leading scientists would work together to develop the field of anthropomorphic robotics. Their goal is to achieve the possibility of transplanting a human brain into an artificial carrier, which will provide a chance for cybernetic immortality.
True, it is not only the human body that ages and decays over time - the same process, alas, is inevitable for the brain, no matter where it is transplanted. So in this regard, the idea of immortality seems as unrealizable as the creation of a perpetual motion machine.