Tesla Develops Its Future… Robot Workers (Video)

The Tesla Optimus will be equipped with the latest advances in artificial intelligence and will be capable of performing repetitive tasks.

Imagine the stock price of Tesla once all employees are replaced by robots. No more strikes, sick leaves, vacations, salaries or bonuses, health or retirement contributions. The dream!

We might chuckle privately and claim that it will never happen, only limited minds will agree. Others…

Science fiction loses its wonder once ideas born in fertile brains are materialized. The wave of anxiety grows even stronger when the dreams of a robot-filled world are implemented by a narcissistic, egocentric billionaire genius wanting to make history like an emperor or pharaoh.

Disruptive spirit, Elon Musk hasn’t reinvented the wheel but aims to conquer new planets, has created reusable rockets, launched a constellation of communication satellites into orbit, made his automotive firm Tesla the benchmark for electric cars, bought the social network Twitter to influence opinion through algorithms, and has decided to invest billions today in artificial intelligence. Not just to compete with Chat GTP or help students with their final year theses…

“So Why?“, we might be tempted to ask naively. His plan would be to populate Earth with millions of humanoid robots “autonomous, versatile, and bipedal, capable of performing dangerous, repetitive, or monotonous tasks“, says Elon Musk. To do this, his Optimus, currently in development, must be equipped with a robust decision-making capacity that works in complex and uncertain real-world situations.

By anthropomorphism, Tesla Bot has two legs, two arms, five fingers per hand, a torso, and a “screen” head. It will be able to carry 20 kg, hold 4.5 kg at arm’s length without ever trembling for hours, and briefly lift up to 68 kg. Add perfect measurements—1.72 meters tall and 56 kg weight—to outshine gym-goers, and Musk will have created human 2.0.

Inside, Optimus will house a neural network configured to solve problems, learn in real-time from more complex scenarios experienced by other Optimus units, thereby accelerating its skills development. Frightening to say, and even more so when Elon Musk states during the presentation that Optimus will have “profound impacts on the economy” by doing the boring tasks for humans. Like manufacturing a Tesla instead of an employee, for example, replacing hotel staff, etc.? “Basically, performing physical work will become a choice in the future“, Elon Musk explains. But performing “brain” work isn’t accessible to everyone, and even a well-educated brain won’t weigh much against a computer with exponentially growing artificial intelligence knowledge. Darwinism has entered a new era.

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