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Elon Musk Reveals Plans to Unleash a Humanoid Tesla Bot
Elon Musk reveals plans to unleash a humanoid Tesla Bot:
Tesla CEO Elon Musk ended a deeply technical AI Day event [(3h3m21s)] with a head-turning announcement: a humanoid robot.
After a dancing human dressed as a robot moved off stage at Thursday's invitation-only event in Palo Alto, California, Musk introduced Tesla Bot. It will be based on Tesla's Autopilot system and is essentially a humanoid form of the car. Musk considers the electric vehicles "fully sentient robots on wheels." So might as well make it a human-like bot!
The bot looks like a human with two arms (and two hands with five fingers) and two legs. It'll stand at 5 feet 8 inches and weigh 125 pounds. It can only run 5 mph, which Musk assured was slow enough for most people to escape if something goes wrong: "If you can run faster than that it’ll be fine."
Most importantly, Musk said it would be friendly ("of course") and operate dangerous, repetitive, and boring tasks as it "navigates a world built for humans."
Musk repeated that the humanoid would have a screen on its head and eight cameras, like on Tesla cars that can drive with assistance from Autopilot. "It's all the same tools we see in the car," he said.
Elon Musk Reveals Tesla Bot, a Humanoid Robot Utilizing Tesla's Vehicle AI
The story continues at c|net:
Elon Musk reveals Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot utilizing Tesla's vehicle AI:
Three slides detailed the robot's proposed specifications and Musk made sure he pointed out you could both outrun the Tesla Bot and "overpower" it. He has, in the past, rallied against the use of robots as weapons and warned of the risks AI might pose -- once calling it the "biggest risk we face as a civilization." I guess if they're your incredibly slow, easy-to-overpower robots, the dangers are reduced.
One particular slide said they would eliminate "dangerous, repititive, boring tasks" and Musk provided an example suggesting the robot could be told to "go to the store and get ... the following groceries."
A prototype would likely be ready next year, he said.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday August 20 2021, @09:25PM (4 children)
Machines wear out and break. They develop faults. The more robots they build to do boring work, the more work humans will have to do to fix them when they malfunction. So it's not clear if robots will produce more leisure time for humans by doing their work for them.
The best reason to have all those robots, it seems, is to use them to take over the world.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Friday August 20 2021, @11:17PM (3 children)
It's not a bug, that's a feature. It's called "planned obsolescence".
That's not a bug, that's a feature. It is called "job creation", one of the most rewarding activity.
That may be true, but bear in mind those that barely have leisure time today won't be able to afford one. The majority of this world's population is safe for the tedious work of repairing one of these Elon Musk's robots.
What do you think the $100B-naires of today do?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 21 2021, @01:30AM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday August 21 2021, @01:39AM (1 child)
Mate, all you have today is a pretty nice 3D raytracing render of a humanoid for with a "Robot" label attached.
Watch your imagination, you'll be falling outta bed if you get too excited during your sleep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by dcollins55 on Sunday August 22 2021, @12:12AM
There's nothing imaginary or hard about this. There is only redefining what "fix" means for you. Here's the reality of the modern world:
Things are made of components. Individual components are fairly complex, but cheap and made by a robot. Individual components have sensors. Fixing means fixing the item, buy replacing the component in it that failed.
This does not mean figure out why this circuit board isn't working or what transistor on it is leaking or did the little heatsink become unglued from a little CPU. It means the vision processing module isn't working, replace it.
So yes, we can absolutely have robots fixing robots.