Optimus Teslabot is ready for field trials in multiple factories according a job posting.
New Job Posting: To drive the deployment of robots for trial applications … execute pilot applications of humanoid robots in various manufacturing environments … cover multiple job sites and may require frequent travel.
🚨Optimus is ready for field trials in the factories!
New Job Posting: "To drive the deployment of robots for trial applications … execute pilot applications of humanoid robots in various manufacturing environments … cover multiple job sites and may require frequent travel" pic.twitter.com/pED919fVV2
— Tesla Bot Journal (@TeslaBotJournal) March 20, 2024
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It is worth pointing out that for repetetive manual labor there is a good deal of “low hanging fruit” to be picked.
I think once humanoid robots start working and speaking with people their progress will be extremely rapid. Much faster than even the adoption of the smart phone. Basically, for most people, from having never seen one to regularly seeing them in a span of months.
I’d personally have a much longer timeline as my estimation. Maybe not as bad as electronic shelf label that went from a couple stores in the whole world in the 1990s to maybe as common as one store in a hundred today and growing, but the point stands; even if they were ready to work at the level of a severely mentally disabled coop student today (they are not) the approval for funding, the acquisition of funding, the planning and implementation will take a LONG time I suspect.
Next time you hear that a store has updated their computer system go buy in a few months and see how often cashiers have to run to find a prices because the fancy new system dropped 5 percent of the merch from the system. Technological change never goes easy cheaply or quickly.
It will take 2-3 generations of robots to be really useful at home and on general usage cases.
It’s different having a bot on a controlled environment like a factory doing mindless drudgery ad infinitum, than having a really useful nurse or caretaker bot for kids or the elderly at home.
Albeit, these generational leaps can go quickly nowadays…
Video of the first Neuralink patient, Noland Arbaugh, just came out. This seems like a potential early use for Teslabot outside an industrial context too. These patients have a real need for a humanoid standing by 24/7 to do things for them and an opportunity for Tesla and Neuralink to learn a lot in the process of helping them.
Robots must pay taxes and social security otherwise all the social structures will collapse
100% NOT!!!
Last thing I want is some AI (or AI supporting people) screaming:
‘No taxation without representation”
Keep robots as PROPERTY … a computer with limbs … a THING
While I’m sceptical of both the vision of how much these bots will be able to do — and far more importantly, how soon — I’d congratulate Tesla on the progress they have made on this research. I hope they learn a lot during these field trials to feed back into the research.