By 3 News online staff

A Russian businessman is calling on the worlds richest people to help fund a project to develop human immortality technology by 2045.

The project aims to eventually develop the means to download the human brain to a computer chip in a robot.

Dmitry Itskov, 31, launched the project last year and last week sent out the call for funding.

Members of the Forbes richest list: human life is unique and priceless. It is only when we have to part with life do we realise just how much we have not done, that we have not had enough time to do what we really wanted Today you have a chance to change this situation.

The 2045 team of Russian scientists will research how to extend human life by means of cybernetic technology in four steps.

From 2015 to 2020 the team hopes to develop robots, reminiscent of the 2009 movie Surrogates, which can be controlled by the human mind and allow people to work in dangerous situations.

By 2020 to 2025, Mr Itskov and the scientists hope the technology to transfer an intact human brain from a worn our human body into a robot will be available.

From 2030 to 2035 he hopes the technology to transfer human consciousness onto a computer chip will exist and allow for cybernetic immortality.

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Immortality for the rich by 2045?