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On January 27, 2022, Musk announced on a conference call that the development of humanoid robots will be the most important work of the year, even overshadowing the automotive business. Could it be that the construction period will not be able to catch up?
What is the most important new product for Tesla this year?
The answer is neither a Cyberruck pickup, nor a Roadster supercar, or even a car!
Remember the Tesla robot that shocked the world at AI Day in mid-August 2021?
Although only humans in robot performance suits appeared to dance on the spot, Musk revealed various predetermined specifications of Tesla Bot.
Made of smooth "lightweight material". It is 5 ft 8 inches (173 cm) tall, weighs 125 pounds (56 kg), walks 5 miles per hour (8 km/h), and can lift up to 45 pounds (20 kg) of items.
The face consists of a camera and a screen to display a variety of information. The limbs are controlled by 40 drive motors and have human-grade hand functions. Both feet are able to sense and respond, achieving balance and agile movements.
Like Tesla cars, the robot will use a vision-based neural network, an AP's camera, and a full suite of computing devices for FSDs.
Musk said Tesla should be the world's largest robotics company because "our cars are like semi-sentient robots with wheels."
Therefore, it seems quite reasonable to use technologies such as "dojo" supercomputer chips and fully automatic driving AI to train humanoid robots.
Recently, Musk seems to be particularly fond of promoting Tesla's robot project, probably because the construction period is a bit rushed.
On the January 27, 2022 earnings call, Musk told investors that Tesla's development of humanoid robots is the most important job of the year.
In addition, Tesla robots also have a very cool internal code name - "Optimus".
Musk: Robots will solve the labor shortage
Musk said that over time, Tesla's robotics business even has the potential to surpass the car business.
On the conference call, Musk once again said that the first prototype of Tesla robots will be launched in 2022.
He also said that the first use of humanoid robots at Tesla will be manual labor, "moving parts around the factory or similar purposes."
Musk said: "The foundation of the economy is labor, so once the labor shortage problem disappears, it will not open the world? I wasn't sure what economics would mean. That's what Optimus is focusing on, and you can see the importance."
Regarding the automotive business, Musk announced that Tesla's current focus is on increasing production capacity and will not launch new models: "If new models are introduced now, overall output will decline. So the recent focus is not on launching new models, which is meaningless, but on improving the efficiency of the engineering technology, tools, etc. of the car."
Judging from the minutes of this meeting, is Musk going to take a humanoid robot to build a car?
The head of AI is frantically pulling people
Tesla's rampage on AI and robotics projects should not be just the public relations bragging of the boss FeiYezi Hi.
The day before the earnings call, Andrea Karpathy, Tesla's AI program leader, announced on his LinkedIn homepage that Tesla's AI program had begun to recruit a large number of people.
Andrea Karpathi says he is "convinced that Tesla robots are on the road to becoming the most powerful AI development platform," so he is eager to recruit relevant talents: deep learning software engineers/architecture engineers, AI tool front-end/back-end development engineers, evaluation software engineers, deep learning scientists, and so on.
And there's one in the hiring request: I've seen the Tesla AI Day demonstration video. Karpasia says that only then can candidates know what the project is all about.
Karpasia also fiercely publicized in the recruitment post: "Now there is no other organization that can compare with our company in vertical integration, development and deployment of cutting-edge robot AI." Our goal is not only to improve the safety and comfort of car traffic with fully autonomous driving, but also to apply these discoveries and advances to humanoid robots."
The Tesla robot that made Musk "blow" wildly
In late December 2021, Musk said in an interview with Lex Fridman, a well-known AI research scholar, that in addition to completing work tasks, Tesla Bot also has the ability to become a friend of humans, or even a good partner.
Musk said: "Over time, it (Tesla Bot) can develop a unique personality, not all robots are the same, this personality can evolve to match the owner."
He also used the analogy of the classic robot from the Star Wars movies, pointing out that Tesla Bot can be a great friend of humanity like C3PO or R2D2.
Fast forward to 2022, Musk has more than once blown his own robots and AI.
On January 19, 2022, Musk tweeted: "Tesla AI may play a role in general artificial intelligence (AGI) because it can be trained against the outside world, especially with the advent of Optimus Prime robots."
When pushing friends joked that he would not release the Terminator-style demons, Musk replied: "I will do my best." Decentralized control of robots will be key."
Musk's fans were naturally happy, and someone replied, "Is it possible that Tesla Motors will become a Transformer right away?"
But there are also people who don't buy it, and some people summarize their opinions succinctly: "Everyone is calm, Musk is spewing out his mouth again."
A Chinese netizen said harshly: "I guess your current Twitter is also managed by AI, and this AI is now pregnant."
The comments on the business technology reporting website TNW were much darker: "Musk should be greatly affected by his ability to pay money."
"The combination of the world's richest candidate and a talented engineer has created the number one troll of contemporary social networks."
"Breaking up with OpenAI, which advocates general artificial intelligence in 2018, and blowing AGI on its own in 2022, is really a model for repeated jumps."
"Intelligent driving AI is typical of narrow AI. It is better to expect to make general artificial intelligence through dojo chips and driving AI than to expect the robot to be struck by lightning and stimulated by electric surges to mutate terminators."
"All those who believe Musk's bragging are either die-hard fans whose emotions are pinned on him or who bet money on him."
Of course, as with most contemporary public issues, the topic of Tesla robots inevitably ends up being yellow.
This is the concept map of "Tesla Home Robot" imagined by netizens on the famous otaku welfare picture website 9GAG. Powerful: "Full of three circumferences; running for decades at a time on a charge; programmable hugs; innocence of personality; your son will call it Mom."
Resources:
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-robot-business-optimus-most-important-new-product-2022-1
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-robots-agi
https://thenextweb.com/news/did-elon-musk-forget-about-openai-or-is-he-just-trolling-his-dumbest-fans
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