We're thrilled to announce that Nathan Foster, the creator of AMI, is voiced by Troy Baker! We're so excited for everyone to hear Troy's amazing performance. In between of that big day, take a look behind the scenes at the voice acting session and learn a little bit more about the chief robonaut engineer below... 👇
https://youtu.be/KGGLBHGmA_I
Meet your maker... Nathan Foster
Nathan's early art... and his finished art!
Nathan Foster helms the International Space Agency's robonaut team as its chief. Under his leadership, Nathan's team built the first self-governing artificial consciousness of the universe, better known as AMI.
"The complexity of your mind is beautiful. I'll always be proud of that." -Nathan Foster
From a young age, Nathan was fascinated by science fiction books and robots. After building his first functional droid and earning his doctorate from Caltech at a mere twenty-six years of age, Nathan was hired by ISA. He eventually worked his way up to the position of Chief Robonaut Engineer at the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Nathan's team developed a new complex neural AI architecture based on Julian Jaynes's bicameral mind model of consciousness. Nathan believes that humanoid robots have the potential to save humanity from their own destructive tendencies.
"You are not perfect, but I never meant for you to be perfect. You're supposed to develop your own persona, for better or for worse." -Nathan Foster
After spending concerning amounts of money and resources trying (and failing) to set up a human colony on Mars, the ISA was reluctant to continue the program. It is Nathan's unique approach that keeps the program afloat: to send an advanced and autonomous AI (aka... AMI!) to prepare the Red Planet for human colonization in advance of a crewed mission.
Stay tuned in the weeks to come for more exciting news and character profiles. ✨
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This character blog was updated 12/01/2020 to include Nathan's final character art.