You may remember video from Tesla, about a year ago, of their new "Teslabot" - a humanoid robot. It could barely stand by itself, and had almost no functionality. The main demo unit had to be wheeled on to stage.
It uses the same Full Self Drive (FSD) computer and software as their cars. That software used to be 300k lines of C++ code, which has now been fully replaced by a neural network.
When the new FSD is combined with some significant improvements in dexterity, it gives the latest robot the ability to be trained to sort blocks by colour, without any coding. It's balance has improved enough that it's now also doing yoga!
Humanoid robots from companies like Boston Dynamics are built as low-volume, high-cost tools ($150k USD just for Spot, I believe), which need explicit instructions for every movement they make. The Teslabot is designed as a high-volume, low-cost (targeting $25k USD) machine that will be taking on real-world tasks well before the end of this decade. They'll first be used in Tesla factories. Given the rate of progress over the last 12 months, I expect to see that happening by the end of 2024.
Check it out in the short video - https://lnkd.in/gz5-_HBW
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