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I think ive seen this movie, and it doesn’t end well.
US electric car-maker Tesla is to follow in Honda’s tracks by branching out into robotics
Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla will launch a prototype for a humanoid robot next year that has been created to carry out “boring, repetitious and dangerous” work.
Making the shock announcement at the Tesla AI Day event, the US car-maker’s billionaire CEO said the robot would measure in at 5ft 8in, weigh 65kg and be capable of attaching bolts to cars with a spanner, or more complex tasks like picking up groceries at your local shop.
Describing Tesla’s latest creation as having “profound implications for the economy”, Musk suggested that the new droid will plug gaps created by labour shortages.
The outspoken Tesla CEO did not announce how much the Tesla Bot would cost but said in his speech that the new machine would not be “super expensive”. Said to harness the same computer chips and navigation technology as Tesla’s semi-autonomous driving aids in cars like the Model 3, the new robot will come equipped with eight cameras.
The timing of the new Tesla Bot comes just days after a US safety body launched a new probe into Tesla’s Autopilot system following a series of crashes involving Tesla cars and parked emergency services vehicles.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), at least 11 crashes have occurred when Tesla cars “have encountered first responder scenes and subsequently struck one or more vehicles involved with those scenes” since January 2018.
In these situations, it’s understood that when police, fire service or ambulance members have attended another traffic accident, they’ve had their vehicles struck by a Tesla operating on Autopilot that has failed to recognise the scene ahead.
The new probe could prove significant for Tesla if the NHTSA finds fault with the semi-autonomous cruise control system. The US safety body has the power to not only demand a recall but to introduce new limits that could govern when and where Autopilot is legally able to operate.
Tesla announcing its plans for branching out into robotics follows Honda’s decades of developing assistance robots and Hyundai Motor Group’s recent acquisition of US-based robot-maker Boston Dynamics in a deal reportedly worth more than $1.1 billion (£800 million).
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.
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He made a point of explaining they’ll move slower than people, allowing people to run away if they need to ?
Haha brilliant guys ?
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.Maybe he’ll give a Tesla car to each of his robots. They won’t mind when they get driven into an accident scene on automatic.
Seriously though, why make machines like this in a humanoid form? Machines doing dangerous jobs should be designed in a specific form to fit the job; rarely humanoid, I should think.
Boris has probably already pre-ordered a couple of hundred thousand via one of his ‘chums’ to drive lorries, pick crops and work in Social Care.
Nah. Those are just more Straw Men. Androids would be expected to do actual work.
Come on guys they only get paid £82,000 a year plus all the expenses under the Sun you can think of so can’t expect them to actually do any work as well for that pittance.
Yup, Chris. Must be terribly difficult now that there are fewer over-stuffed brown-paper envelopes changing hands because of Covid. Never mind. It’ll pick up again soon. They’ll all be able to afford the second Bentley for the weekends.
The same man who said on Joe Rogan podcast that he feared AI would take over the world I.e destroy it. Yet here he is, creating the AI ?
I see Boston Dynamics have just been bought by Hyundai, now they have created some really scary looking robots. Some a little too close for comfort lol
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America and others are producing combat robots good/not so good?
Then we have robot companions/carers, one per person to keep you company and look after your needs lift you out of bed if required, contact emergency services if needed or in extreme circumstances resuscitate you good/not so good?
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.Getting I, Robot thoughts from all this. ?
Mm5 your right to get those feelings I think it’s already too late to stop it.
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.Umm . . . You do know that Elon Musk’s ‘Android’ was a mime in a lycra catsuit, wearing a plastic mask – right? 😀
Just watch from 3.00 minutes in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmkFrv80b7Y
I really grinds my gears that a Fantasy-world dwelling lunatic gets endless applause and public adulation when Boston Dynamics and many other R&D companies have created seriously brilliant robotics – for real:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LP4qpOLl0
It’s 2027, Motability has announced that all scheme users will be loaned a Tesla Companion Robot as part of the lease.
A single vehicle remains on the scheme, however, it comes in 3 colour ways and metallic is free of charge. Your helpful companion will act as the brains of the vehicle in self drive mode, this is not optional. The DWP use the companions to collect data on your mobility, to improve their services and understand the end users needs in greater detail.
Quite.
He does look friendly
They do that Tim and then whoosh they’ve taken over the world ?
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.Georgie we will have actual “can do” robots in our lives. Many pluses and many negatives but robots in our lives we will have.
The only person who got all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
Anything i post over three lines long please assume it is an article lol.Here I am, brain the size of a planet and what do they get me doing? Steering their bloody cars; turning their aircon on; tuning their radios. Drivers. Don’t ya hate ’em?
Brydo – We already have “can do” humanoid robots. I included those links to real robots that exist NOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY
All Musk can come up with is Blue Sky daydreams and a dancing man wearing a lycra suit. It’s a joke – just like his Tesla Cybertruck with it’s ‘bullet-proof’ glass that couldn’t even stop a rock, let alone a bullet:
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