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Tesla’s Optimus faces stiff humanoid competition at Beijing robot conference (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The idea is that there is untold trillions worth of existing infrastructure and tools that are designed to be operated by humanoids, 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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?