Elon musk announced its plans to develop and launch a humanoid robot called “Tesla Bot” and he says it will be a true lightweight that most people should be able to defeat in battle or escape from. What do you want to anticipate with this?
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This Thursday, during the event of AI Day, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, revealed that the car company is working on a humanoid prototype that we’ll get a first look at “sometime next year.”
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To build your robot assistant, Tesla to build on experience with car manufacturing roboticsas well as its AI-powered computer chips, which allow its fleet of cars to almost drive themselves.
Elon Musk, has warned us on Twitter about the dangers of AI. “I’ve been beating this AI drum for a decade. We should be concerned about where AI is going. The people I see who are the most wrong about AI are the ones who are very smart, because they can’t imagine that a computer can be much smarter than them, “Musk said in July 2020.”
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Now the billionaire reiterated that the Tesla Bot is “meant to be friendly” and that it will be weaker and slower than a human. It will measure five feet eight inches tall, that is, just under 1.80 meters; and it will weigh 125 pounds, this is 58 kg. He will reportedly have hands on a human level, as it was not Musk who showed the prototype but an assistant on stage.
The purpose of Tesla Bot is unclear but on Tesla’s website it reads: “perform tasks that are unsafe, repetitive, or boring.” And the CEO of the company joked that “You know, once you do that, maybe I can do other things too… I mean, maybe I could be your friend too. I’m sure people will think of some very creative uses.”
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We do not know if the Tesla CEO will be able to develop a humanoid robot that can compete with Boston Dynamics offerings such as ‘Atlas’. Since, we have seen how difficult it is to get bipedal robots to have the ability to walk and perform complex tasks.