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Tesla to have a working humanoid robot in 2022 September
Elon Musk just delayed Tesla’s second AI Day from August 19th to September 30th. We’re all used to Tesla’s falling deadlines, but the causes for this one are fascinating. In a Tweet, Musk blamed the uncertainty on the possibility that they may have a working humanoid robot to show off by that point.
The humanoid robot, named Optimus (presumably a Transformers reference, and previously known as Tesla Bot), was one of the big statements at the last AI Day in August 2021.
For some, the Optimus reveal was a bit of a turning ball, because they thought Tesla’s AI technology and Project Dojo supercomputer were exclusively desired at expanding the company’s self-driving car capabilities as quickly as possible.
After all, the FSD system has been beta-examining in the USA and Canada since late 2020, and Musk recently asserted Tesla would extend the current tally of 100,000 to 1 million beta testers by the end of 2022. So there will be a lot of data to crunch and shape into improved self-driving models.
But with all that environmental manners knowledge and AI processing power on hand, it’s not such a huge leap for Tesla also to leverage the credentials for other applications.
A self-driving car is already a kind of robot and lodging-related technology into a bipedal form isn’t such a leap. If it’s useful to have your car handle the boring daily commute, it could also be highly beneficial to have a robot that can do the cleaning, help with lifting heavy things, and assist with all manner of domestic duties.
At the time of the original statement, Musk asserted that the humanoid robot would have the “potential to be more significant than the vehicle industry over time” and eventually mean that “physical work will be a choice”.
This is indicated by the Universal Basic Income idea that has been floating around in the last few years, particularly as a central tenet of Andrew Yang’s 2020 presidential campaign. This is particularly ironic right now, after Elon Musk has been telling employees to come back into the office, and is also considering laying off 10% of his workforce. He would likely be quite happy to replace his factory workers with a fleet of Optimus Tesla Bots.
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