'Eternal life' project aims to help humans live forever as 'robots'

Within 30 years you'll be able to live forever - so long as you don't mind spending eternity as a robot.
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Russian multi-millionaire Dmitry Itskov has announced plans to develop technology which will allow human memories and personality to an online avatar which can survive for eternity.

Mr Itskov, a Moscow media mogul, is spearheading the "2045 Initiative," which, as it's name suggests, he claims will be ready by the year 2045.

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His team of sponsored scientists believe the human brain is extremely similar to a computer so will eventually be able to be transferred to a number of upgradable "bodies".

In a forthcoming BBC Horizon documentary, the businessman said: "If there is no immortality technology, I'll be dead in the next 35 years."

He added: "The ultimate goal of my plan is to transfer someone's personality into the new artificial carrier. Different scientists call it uploading or they call it mind transfer. I prefer to call it personality transfer."

Mr Itskov's research team has reportedly been paying close attention to the case of Erik Sorto, a quadriplegic who is part of California Institute of Technology research into a similar form of "uploading".

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The research is attempting to use computers to determine what Mr Sorto is thinking, and is even part of a trial to merge his brain with a robotic limb.

The documentary, entitled The Immortalist, is set to be broadcast on 16 March.