Tesla is building a real Humanoid Robot 🤖
The company planned to have a prototype developed by 2022
On Thursday’s Tesla AI Day, Musk defined Tesla as a business with “deep AI activity in hardware at the inference and training levels” that may be used to uses other than self-driving vehicles in the future, including a humanoid robot Tesla is reportedly developing.
Tesla AI Day, which began with a stirring 45 minutes of industrial music lifted directly from the soundtrack of “The Matrix,” featured a series of Tesla engineers explaining various Tesla technologies with the explicit goal of recruiting the best and brightest to join Tesla’s vision and AI teams and help the company achieve autonomy and beyond.
He then said, and I quote,
“There’s a tremendous amount of work to make it work and that’s why we need talented people to join and solve the problem”
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🤖 Humanoid Tesla Robot
Yes, I am surprised too
Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, stated that Tesla would develop a humanoid robot capable of doing monotonous jobs, with a prototype expected next year. It will incorporate some of the technologies Tesla has created for automobiles, he said Thursday at an event in Palo Alto, Calif., centred on artificial intelligence, or technology that mimics how people think.
Elon Musk envisions a society where routine tasks such as grocery shopping and auto fuelling may be performed by humanoid robots such as the Tesla Bot.
Here are the basic specs for the robot as described by Tesla during the presentation:
Only weighing 125 pounds and a height of 5'8", it is capable of deadlifting 150 pounds and walking at a rate of 5 miles per hour.
“Our cars are semi-sentient robots on wheels,” Musk said, adding that “it kind of makes sense” to put the software “onto a humanoid form.”
Elon stated that they are building the robot because they currently manufacture nearly all of the technology required to build it, and if “Tesla does not do it,” they want to do it safely.
The long-term aim is for the Tesla Bot to replace the majority of work eventually. Musk repeated his support for universal income, which would be necessary if the Tesla Bot has the impact Musk anticipates.
Musk did not specify whether or not it will be sold or for what price. The robot’s face will be replaced with a screen that will show vital information.
The bot, a prototype of which is anticipated for release in 2022, is being pitched as a non-automotive robotic application for the company’s neural network research.
