Nifty News: Sophia the Robot sells $1M worth, Cardano to clone NFT platforms,...

Nifty News: Sophia the Robot sells $1M worth, Cardano to clone NFT platforms,...

Sophia the Robot has generated more than $1 million in NFT sales, Bhad Bhabie is dropping NFTs to help the “troubled teen industry”, Cardano trying to convince top NFT platforms to port over. If creative self-doubt and competition between humans in the art world weren’t already hard enough, artists now face the prospect of battling it out on Nifty Gateway with artistic robots. Sophia, the world-famous humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, has generated more than $1 million in sales from her debut NFT drop on Nifty Gateway. The “Andrea Bonaceto and Sophia the Robot....


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