Musk: Tesla robots can develop a unique personality in the future and become the perfect partner

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Recently, Elon Musk said that he is considering designing the Tesla Bot not just as a humanoid robot performing tasks, but to let it develop a unique personality and become a companion.

Musk said Tesla robots can be "incredible partners like C3PO or R2D2."

Earlier this year, Musk announced the Tesla Robotics Program, a humanoid robot equipped with artificial intelligence designed to accomplish general repetitive tasks.

At first, it sounded like another joke from Musk, but Tesla had already started recruiting. Musk said Tesla will build the robot to do useful work, and he even said it could help solve the labor shortage.

On a podcast by robotics scientist Lex Friedman, Musk was asked if he had considered providing a potential companion role for Tesla robots, such as assistants or friends.

Musk replied: "I think the possibilities are endless. Tesla's main mission directive is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy, but it's a very useful thing to make a humanoid robot for the world that is able to interact with the world and help in many different ways. ”

Musk reiterated that Tesla will focus on getting robots to do "repetitive and boring work," especially those that can lead to repetitive stress damage, but he also said that robots can also be "a perfect companion" and that "over time, it can develop a unique personality." Not all robots are the same. This personality can evolve to match the owner, or whatever you want to call it. ”

Friedman, a scientist who specializes in human-computer interaction, believes that there is a huge opportunity to reduce loneliness with applications such as Tesla robots.

In August, Musk released a humanoid robot called "Tesla Robot", which uses the same artificial intelligence of Tesla's self-driving car. At the press conference, the robot did not appear, but a performer dressed in a Tesla-like robot danced a strange dance.

At the time, there were only a few slides about Tesla robots, similar to slender human robots, which looked creepy. Musk said the 5-foot-8-inch (about 1.8-meter) tall robot is expected to weigh up to 125 pounds, is made of "lightweight materials," has a head equipped with autopilot cameras that Tesla cars use to sense the environment, and contains a screen that displays information. Inside, it will run through Tesla's fully autonomous driving computer.

One of the slides showed that the Tesla robot would eliminate "dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks," and Musk gave an example suggesting that the robot could go to the store to buy ... The following foods. "It's not that such a task is particularly dangerous, it's that you might find it repetitive and boring."

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