xAI must not have been getting enough investor interest and rather than admit it’s a stinker, he’s shackling spaceX with it.
This is the same thing Musk did saddling Tesla (and Tesla public shareholders) with the debt of the failed company Solar City run by his cousin.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Now he’s also retooling Tesla facilities to build his Optimus humanoid robots.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Who the hell is going to buy his stupid robots?
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If they work, it’s going to be other corporations for factory work.
It’s going to be a long long time before any bot is good enough and cheap enough to be used at the consumer level in our homes.
Blemgo@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If a factory can afford robots, they already have acquired it. Industrial robots excel at their work already due to them being extremely precise already. If you need transportation robots, there are already ones that euter run on embedded rails or are already fully self-driving using wheels. Humanoid robots solve no issues that the industry hasn’t already solved. It would just be a robot that would be less stable compared to any other transportation robot nor as precise as stationed ones while also more complex, and thus easier to break down, with the only upside it being that it’s more of a generalist, but that is also sort of a moot point because a human could do it still cheaper.
The real use case of humanoid robots is very niche, with it being in environment where classic robot models fails, that being an environment that cannot be modified for classic robot use (e.g. mountainous terrain) where flying is not a viable option. After all, the human body, and the bodies of quite a few animals, excel at climbing rough and steep terrain whereas most, if not all, currently commercially available robots fail at it, or at the very least do very poorly.
Kirp123@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They seem so bad for factory work though? One of those robot arms would work so much better than some shitty humanoid robot.