While Chinese companies last week showed off human-like robots playing the zither or grabbing sodas, Tesla displayed its Optimus humanoid inside a clear box.
The idea is that there untold trillions worth of existing infrastructure and tools that are designed to be operated by a humanoid, so the hope is that by designing it close to a human form it will be able to perform task in an environment designed for human without having to design a different robot for each task.
Basically the idea is to create a robot that is good enough at doing a lot of things instead of one that is super efficient at one thing like the ones we use in industry right now.
There are a lot of use cases, but they all assume the robots reach a certain level of precision, speed and adaptability, which we are still far from.
Honestly I find it really hard to imagine a humanoid robot (at least without muscle induced mobility) maintaining an aircraft/plumbing and so on.
I can imagine the use case. I don’t see this tech being anywhere close to maturity in this decade though. The amount of processing power would be CRAZY to deal with these tasks, no? Computer vision + motor skills. Add actual mobility to that. What would be the power source? Definitely not a battery! Would it be like a cable connected to a wall outlet or something?
The idea is that there untold trillions worth of existing infrastructure and tools that are designed to be operated by a humanoid, so the hope is that by designing it close to a human form it will be able to perform task in an environment designed for human without having to design a different robot for each task.
Basically the idea is to create a robot that is good enough at doing a lot of things instead of one that is super efficient at one thing like the ones we use in industry right now.
There are a lot of use cases, but they all assume the robots reach a certain level of precision, speed and adaptability, which we are still far from.
Honestly I find it really hard to imagine a humanoid robot (at least without muscle induced mobility) maintaining an aircraft/plumbing and so on.
I can imagine the use case. I don’t see this tech being anywhere close to maturity in this decade though. The amount of processing power would be CRAZY to deal with these tasks, no? Computer vision + motor skills. Add actual mobility to that. What would be the power source? Definitely not a battery! Would it be like a cable connected to a wall outlet or something?