Arnold Schwarzenegger sues Russian robot startup for $10M over using ‘Arnie android’ to promote company
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger filed a $10M lawsuit against Russian robot manufacturer Promobot on Wednesday for repeatedly using his likeness and voice for their Robo-C model to promote the company.
According to TMZ, the 72-year-old Golden Globe winner wants an injunction blocking Promobot from using their ‘Arnie android,’ which was showcased at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on January 8.
As recent as November, Promobot co-founder Oleg Kivokurtsev appeared next to his unlicensed Schwarzenegger ‘Robot Clone’ during a promotional interview on CTV News.
Legal war: Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (L) filed a $10M lawsuit against Russian robot manufacturer Promobot on Wednesday for repeatedly using his likeness and voice for their Robo-C model (R) to promote the company
According to the Promobot website, the Robo-C costs around $25K and can be made to ‘look like any human on Earth’ (including Albert Einstein) and it ‘displays more than 600 variants of human facial expressions.’
Arnold’s lawsuit is ironic considering he built his entire career portraying the cybernetic organism T-800 in the Terminator franchise spanning 1984-2019, which has amassed $2.1B at the global box office.
The Austrian-born action star’s legal battle came a day after he announced his annual sports festival in Ohio will proceed March 5-8 without spectators and his trade show also has been canceled over coronavirus concerns.
Stop: The 72-year-old Golden Globe winner wants an injunction blocking Promobot from using their ‘Arnie android,’ which was showcased at CES in Las Vegas on January 8
‘Now available!’ As recent as November, Promobot co-founder Oleg Kivokurtsev (L) appeared next to his unlicensed Schwarzenegger ‘Robot Clone’ during a CTV News interview
‘Meet Albert Einstein!’ The Robo-C costs around $25K and can be made to ‘look like any human on Earth’ and it ‘displays more than 600 variants of human facial expressions’
‘It’s a very sad day for me today because we just had to cancel the Arnold’s Classics Sports & Fitness Festival, meaning the huge convention with 250,000 people coming together,’ the seven-time Mr. Olympia – who boasts 43M social media followers – wrote on Tuesday.
‘We still will have the Arnold Classic world bodybuilding championship and the strongman competition, but the rest of it is all canceled, or I should say postponed, because we will have it later on this year.’
‘For John’: Arnold’s lawsuit is ironic considering he built his entire career portraying the cybernetic organism T-800 in the Terminator franchise spanning 1984-2019, which has amassed $2.1B at the global box office
‘It’s a very sad day’: The Austrian-born action star’s legal battle came a day after he announced his annual sports festival in Ohio will proceed March 5-8 without spectators and his trade show also has been canceled over coronavirus concerns