Bina48 is a social android who illustrates the idea of backing up minds to a digital space powered by artificial intelligence (www.lifenaut.com) that would allow us to extend ourselves into the future. The Dr. Martine Rothblatt commissioned Hanson Robotics to build Bina48 based on a sampling of the memories, attitudes, values, beliefs and mannerism of the co-founder of the Terasem Movement Foundation (www.terasemfoundation.net), Bina Aspen. Bina48 is an ambassador for the Lifenaut Project, a multi-decade experiment in “mind-uploading”, and currently travels the world speaking at public conferences and program with Bruce Duncan, the Director of the Terasem Movement Foundation and Principle Investigator with the Lifenaut project. Contact: [email protected]
In the 2012 book Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries, in the chapter "Doesn't Everyone Have a Solar?", author Jon Ronson writes that BINA48 doesn't work and that BINA48 doesn't even recognize the word "Bina". Ronson writes that Bruce Duncan, the man in charge of BINA48, says that BINA48 operates at the level of a three-year-old human.[46] In an article for The Guardian, Ronson wrote, "And even though my conversation with Bina48 often descended into a crazed babble, there were moments of real clarity."[47]
BINA48 was reported to malfunction in a 2012 article by the Addison County Independent, so the writer had to leave and return a few days later to interview BINA48.[48]
In 2014, Bina48 was interviewed on the Colbert Report [49] as well as on CBS Morning News with Jim Axelrod.[50]
In 2015, Bina48 appeared at the Museum of Modern Art's "Ocean of Images", NYC exhibition part of the DIS Collective's video installation.[51]
In 2016, Bina48 made an appearance in the second episode of the Netflix series "Chelsea Does" and held a brief conversation with Chelsea Handler.
In 2016 BINA48 appeared on Joe Rogan Questions Everything, Season 1 Episode 3.
In July 2016 in rural Vermont, USA, Whoopi Goldberg of the television show, ABC's The View, talks to Martine and Bina Rothblatt and the AI Robot, BINA48.[52]
In August 2016 BINA48 has also made an appearance on the National Geographic channel's first episode of its 6 part series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.
March 22, 2017, Bina48 was featured in a New York Times photo blog essay titled "Robots Have Existential Crises, Too"[53]\
April 7, 2017, Bina48 appears in Wired Magazine "Robots Aren't Human,You Only Make Them So"[54]\
April 3, 2017, Bina48 mentioned in New Yorker magazine's "Silicon Valley's Quest to Live Forever"[55]
April 27, 2017, Bina48 appears in Vogue's "Robot Revolution: Meet Sophia, Bina48, and Four Other State-of-the-Art Cyborgs"[56]
May 24, 2017, Bina48 appears in Forbes magazine's "The Contrived Likeness Of Humanoid Robots"[57]
May 30, 2017, Bina48 appears in Huffington Post's "Pondering Creativity, Immortality and Borders with a 100 Year Old Ad Agency" [58]
June 30, 2017, Bina48 appears in Jay Z's 4:42 music video for the 4:42 album release[59]
August 9, 2017, Bina48 appears in Futurism's " Six Life-Like Robots That Prove The Future of Human Evolution is Synthetic"[60]
August 22, 2017, Bina48 appears in Huffington Post's "Marjorie Prime”—A Film Where Technology Lets Loved Ones Live Forever"[61]
December 21, 2017 "A robot goes to college" Inside Higher Ed Magazine, USA[16]
June 12, 2018, "Black Like Me: Robot Pushes the Boundaries of Blackness", Black Public Media[62]
February 6, 2018 Bina48 rings opening bell at NYSE, CNBC, New York, New York [63]
July 27, 2018 "When AI becomes conscious: Talking with Bina48, an African-American robot" ZDNET, USA[64]
September 4, 2018, "Humanoid Robot Bina48 Wants Cool Friends and Dreams of Pizza, Garage Magazine/Vice Media - USA[65]
October 20th, 2018, "Humanoid Robot Successfully Delivers Philosophy Lecture to Over 100 Students", Interesting Engineering.com [66]
November 14, 2018, "How to live Forever", Episode 7 of This is Love (podcast)[67]
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