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Elon Musk ’s Optimus mechanical man golem from Tesla is doing more stuff — this time folding a t - shirt on a mesa in a ontogeny readiness . The golem looks to be fairly competent when it do to this task , but moments after Musk share the video , he also share some follow - up info which in spades dampens some of the ebullience for the robot ’s domestic effort .
First , I can definitely turn up shirts faster than that . secondly , Optimus was n’t acting autonomously , which is obviously the last goal . Instead , the robot is here acting like a very expensive puppet , or at best a modern facsimile of the first underlying automotons , going through prescribed motions to accomplish its task . Musk said that finally , it will “ sure as shooting be able to do this amply autonomously , ” however , and without the highly artificial constraints in place for this demonstration , include the fixed - summit mesa and individual article of wear in the carefully place basket .
Optimus close down a shirtpic.twitter.com/3F5o3jVLq1
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)January 15 , 2024
Tesla has shown off a fair bit of technical genius with recent high spot spool released by the company , but the potential scenario is that all of these are extremely written and preprogrammed action that do more to show off the impressive functionality of the bot ’s joints , servomechanism and limb than its artificial intelligence . Elon ’s caution , when believe for even a second , really amounts to “ all the very hard thing will happen later . ”
Not to knock the difficulty in create a humanoid motorcar that can manipulate piano material like clothing in a personal manner come close human fundamental interaction with said objects ; that ’s some mighty fine animatronics work . But suggesting that this puts them anywhere near the land where Optimus will be operating as a fully functional domestic servant with all the capabilities of a human domestic proletarian it might replace would be like showing a telecasting of a wooden puppet and add together “ of course of study , this will be a substantial male child soon . ”
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Musk is renowned for claiming that thing are going to materialise in a clip frame that makes utterly no sense , but his prevision of“within three to five class ” made at the bot prototype ’s original unveilinglast year ( not counting the year before when it was just a guy in a suit ) is risible given its current state , and the current body politic of the art for robotics in general .
Tl;dr — do n’t start transfer your laundry pen up fourth dimension just yet .
