In August this year, Tesla launched a unique research and development result - humanoid robots. Elon Musk said that in addition to doing dangerous or boring work, Tesla robots can also develop a unique personality over time.
On AI Day in August this year, Tesla unveiled a concept robot. According to the company's vision, the first task of Tesla robots will be to do dangerous, repetitive or boring work that people don't like to do. Now, however, CEO Elon Musk seems to have broader ideas about his humanoid robot program.
Musk recently joined Lex Fridman's podcast on a series of profound and important topics, one of which is the Tesla humanoid robot. The CEO said he sees robots as more than just a humanoid robot performing a variety of tasks in the future, but could potentially develop a unique personality and become "a companion that can help humans in different ways."
"I think the possibilities are endless. While this doesn't quite fit into Tesla's primary mission directive to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy, it's a very useful thing for the world to build a humanoid robot that can interact with the world and help in a number of ways. ”
Musk said that robots can develop their own personalities according to the characteristics and wishes of their owners. "Over time, it can develop a unique personality. Not all robots are the same. This personality can evolve to match the owner, or call it whatever you want. ”
This humanoid robot is 1.73 meters high, weighs 57 kg and has a top speed of 8 km / h. The company is developing a friendly robot, but knowing that Musk will worry that their advantages may surpass humans, Tesla is designing it in a safer way.
So they'll be specifically designed to be slower and less powerful, so if something goes wrong, humans can still escape it or subdue it. "Our setup is this, whether it's on a mechanical level, or on a physical level, you can escape it or suppress it, hopefully it never happens, but you never know if it's going to happen."
The Tesla robot will be made of lightweight materials with human agility thanks to 40 mechanical drives: 12 on the arms, 12 on the hands, 12 on the legs, 2 on the torso, and 2 on the neck. It will also have 2 shaft feet for balance and force feedback sensing. Its head will have a screen to display useful information.
Tesla robots will be equipped with 8 Autopilot cameras, FSD hardware, multi-camera video neural networks, neural network programming, auto-annotation, simulations and tools, and Dojo training. This means that it will be able to move independently in the environment without having to program a specific route.