August 20, 2021 03:46 pm
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/20/22633958/tesla-bot-elon-musk-ai-day
Dont overthink it: Elon Musks Tesla Bot is a joke
After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI, the company’s self-anointed Technoking, Elon Musk, capped the evening by bringing out a dancer in a spandex suit. Behold, said Musk: my Tesla Bot.
The dancer in the suit, he said, was the model for a new humanoid robot Tesla will produce in the near future. After the dubstep and applause had faded, the vaguest of briefing slides promised that the Tesla Bot will stand five feet, eight inches (1.7m), weigh 125 pounds (56kg), have “human-level hands,” and eliminate “dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks.”
Musk said that building a human-replacement robot — something no company in the world is close to...
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