He is shifting production to a robot he can’t even show a working prototype for. The US taxpayer will be buying some expensive Roombas in 2026…
tal@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I am personally rather skeptical about the commercial viability of humanoid robots in 2026, but I suppose that we shall see.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
The military and DHS will buy them up like hot cakes i bet. Coming soon to a street corner near you. My question is will they be armed with 5.56 or 7.62?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I smell Iron Man 2 plot.
But why has it become reality?
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You should see just how far Boston Dynamics has progressed. They’ve been working on it for literally decades, and it shows. They may have humanoid AI robots working in automotive assembly lines within a year or two:
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
If it’s taken Boston Dynamics decades it’s going to take Elon Musk centuries.
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Move fast, and kill all humans.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
They may have humanoid AI robots working in automotive assembly lines within a year or two
Bullshit. Cute dance videos are not actual productivity, and the most recent video shows a B-D -Robot barely taking a large part of a large self and dropping it into a rack. Stuff one armed robots already do.
Watch the videos: they always distract with cute waves and dancing but no way will these toys replace skilled labor.
vane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Doubt. There was FT article about robots efficiency in factories with title.
Robots only half as efficient as humans, says leading Chinese producer
Robots in this and next deade will be big flop. It will be like with VR from 80s and 90s
Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 months ago
It won’t matter if they’re cheaper.
People are very expensive.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
They are just the prototypes to the eventual Slaughterbots that will be deployed into the streets to kill us, and bring us under control.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I’m sure that’s the vision but I’m not entirely sure that Elon Musk is the man to bring it about.