Four years ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk blamed overreliance on factory robots for putting the carmaker in 'production hell.' But the electric carmaker is now floating ambitious plans to deploy thousands of humanoid robots within its factories
"Self-driving cars weren't really proved to be as easy as anyone thought. And it's the same way with humanoid robots to some extent," the lead of NASA's Dexterous Robotics Team, Shaun Azimi, told Reuters.
Musk's robots may be able to demonstrate basic capabilities at the event, but it would be hard for them to impress public expectations of robots that are as capable as humans, experts say. Tesla did not respond to Reuters' request for comments, but Musk in the past proved skeptics wrong, jump-starting the electric car market and building a rocket company, SpaceX, although some product launches were behind schedule.A humanoid robot developed by Tesla, known as Tesla Bot or Optimus. Tesla/HandoutInitially, Optimus will perform boring or dangerous jobs, including moving parts around its factories, according to Musk.
He tweeted on Monday that its Autopilot team is also working on its Optimus robot, when asked about fixes of what it calls Full Self-Driving beta - a test version of its new automated driving software.Tesla is on hiring spree for people to work on humanoid bi-pedal robots, with about 20 job postings on "Tesla Bot" including jobs for designing key robot parts like "actuators".
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