China's Agibot launches platform to customize robot personas

AgiBot has launched LinkSoul, a new platform that lets users customize robot personalities and behaviors without coding.

The platform allows users to edit a robot’s voice, personality, behaviors, and memory through a visual interface.

LinkSoul features 30 to 40 built-in voice styles, and a voice cloning tool that creates new voice profiles from short audio samples.

Users can design facial expressions, movements, and dialogue, and generate personas based on prompts or keywords.

Robots using LinkSoul can remember user preferences and adapt to specific tasks by processing uploaded documents.

AgiBot said enterprise clients can use the platform for roles like customer service or guided tours, assigning robots structured workflows, such as item delivery or event hosting.

🔗 Source: Pandaily

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LinkSoul’s memory and voice cloning face regulatory roadblocks

In Lehrman v. Lovo, a federal court in New York let right-of-publicity claims proceed under N.Y. Civil Rights Law §§ 50 and 51 after tossing U.S. IP claims 1.
Commercial voice cloning needs owner consent, and a judge rejected a fair-use defense tied to training on copyrighted recordings in Thomson Reuters v. Ross 2. If LinkSoul’s built-in voices or clones imitate identifiable people or third-party assets, get licenses and written permission under New York’s “digital replica” law, which a court said could apply to AI voice clones 3.
Robot memory can trigger retention and transparency duties under privacy laws. Without clear consent flows and transparent data handling, AgiBot’s clients using robots in customer-facing roles face compliance risk.

Robotics platform developers can build compliance layers for voice and memory features

Third-party teams can ship middleware (an intermediary software layer) between LinkSoul and deployments. It automates consent collection, voice licensing, and biometric data compliance (rules governing identifiers like voiceprints).
Tools could add automated consent flows that create compliant paperwork before cloning and audit trails (tamper-evident logs) that track data retention for robot memory. Guardrails help companies follow state right-of-publicity and consumer protection laws. Federal intellectual property (IP) rules may not cover AI voice clones, and plaintiffs can pursue claims under state law 3.
B2B SaaS vendors can build this compliance layer to support humanoid robots in regulated fields like healthcare and retail where customer contact and data handling demand strict legal adherence.