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This is why I know Elon won't get that ridiculous bonus. He has to sell a million of these robots.
What is even the point of these robots? Like, will he provide the operators as well? Do I have to employ someone to work my robot? Am I supposed to use a robot as a proxy? I don't get what's being sold.
What's being sold is the illusion that the robots are completely autonomous based on AI or something.
Buy it now, get the full AI self-walking update in ~~two~~ ~~three~~ ~~seven~~ ~~fifteen~~ some years.
It worked for Tesla cars, so why should the same strategy not work on the same idiots with robots?
The idea is that a robot + guy in india to run it is cheaper than hiring and American
The robots are supposed to be autonomous, not driven by an operator, but no one can make robots except Boston Dynamics and even they have struggled.
Even if they aren't autonomous you could argue that the dexterity of these bots could be very useful for a human operator to work in a hazardous environment where the human being present directly is harmful.
Now selling them as fully autonomous while pulling off an Amazon checkout is total bullshit.
There's a singular perfectly awesome use case for a robot you can drive as your proxy. Here it is:
Of course, the chances on Elmo being able to deliver anything even approaching this minimum level of usefulness are well into the negatives.
Given that his cars break from rain, and his rockets always explode, I wouldn’t put much stock in these, no.
Oh god, you're right. One million robots in ten years. That's impossible and hilarious.
On the other hand it's good for the economy. They will have to employ one million people working full time to control them. Musk is such a good socialist.
Could they work for people with disabilites? That's the only potential I could see for something like this but if you have to physically walk around to operate the robot they won't even work for that.
It could be great for humanity except for a few details. I only know a few blind people, so my opinion sucks but: they usually don't have a lot of money to spend, and I don't think they would appreciate losing their autonomy to a commercial company, even more if the CEO is an unreliable pedophile drug addict that loves Nazism.
But I could be wrong.
I meant like a person who has limited mobility or something like that could operate the robot to do stuff around the house for themselves, instead of having to pay someone. But I guess it could work for a blind person that needs care to have someone else operate the robot for them but they could do so remotely instead of having to come to them. I am also not speaking of the ones musk is developing. Obviously no one should buy anything that dude has a hand in. As for paying for it, I would assume it'd be treated like other medical devices where your healthcare coverage helps with the costs, but yea, corporations will probably do everything in their power to make it as unobtainable as possible.