Tesla AI Bot — What can you expect from the Tesla Bot?
Tesla has a history of making big promises. But its newest one is just average size.
Tesla has had a contentious relationship with its factory workforce at times, including findings that it broke some labor rules in the past, and reports that it called employees back to work during coronavirus shutdowns and terminated them for not reporting to the factory line during the pandemic. The company’s efforts to automate tasks have sometimes been too rapid, forcing it to backtrack and reintegrate people into the process.
The World Tesla AI day was held on the 19th of August, 2021. Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, unveils a new AI bot that uses the same AI used by Tesla’s fleet of autonomous vehicles. The robot’s appearance came after a 90-minute presentation detailing some of the artificial intelligence upgrades driving Tesla’s electric vehicles, including the Dojo supercomputer, which helps train cars to navigate city streets without human assistance. It’s five foot eight inches tall and has a screen where the head is for useful information.
A functioning version of the robot didn’t make an appearance during Musk’s reveal, though a slightly bizarre dance by a performer dressed like a Tesla Bot did. If a humanoid robot works and can perform repetitive tasks that only humans can do today, Musk said, it has the chance to transform the world economy by driving labor costs down.
Elon Musk said that the humanoid bot is designed to do repetitive, boring, and dangerous tasks. For instance, the bot would be able to handle tasks such as attaching bolts to cars with a spanner or picking up groceries at stores. It is intended to be friendly and it can navigate in a world built for humans. The bot aims to provide us a future in which physical work is a choice.
Tesla is designing it so that humans will be able to run away from the robot or overpower it. Slides displayed by Tesla on Thursday show that Autopilot cameras will be installed in the bot’s head. It will be able to carry 45 pounds, lift 150 pounds, and weighs 125 pounds. It can run 5 miles per hour.
It’s hard to say how far off such a future might be, but there’s a huge gap between showing off a few PowerPoint slides and delivering an actual, working humanoid robot. It’s probably going to be a long while before you get your bread and milk via the Tesla Bot, but, the bot has a lot of interesting things to offer once it arrives.
