AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
It’s funny how the overall humanoid robot debate has been going. Ironic where Optimus was seen as the bar everyone had to follow but now Elon is not revealing the latest Optimus prototype because he says everyone is stealing his ideas but most likely the reality is his delay is because Optimus is behind in development in light of everyone else’s “progress”. He’s afraid Optimus will be underwhelming. It’s like how Trump has stopped making predictions on when his Iran War will end because he’s been wrong so many times because reality doesn’t work the way he thinks.
Look at how Optimus is no longer seen as the top robot model since Atlas at CES that does not operate like a human exactly which has been the goal. Then you have the West basically only in competition with themselves because their developments are slow compared to China’s. The only way they can spin they’re ahead of China is making it all about how close the hands are to how the human hands work. With the way they criticize Chinese robot development, they would be happy to just have a robotic Addams Family “Thing” hand walking around on its fingertips or just flopping around on the floor and the rest is not important.
But we know they’re coping over China which is the White Elephant in the room. You gotta have a body to put that hand on and the West is no where close to China in that development. A Western robotic hand is going to cost tens of thousands of dollars each. As much as an entire Chinese robot. Look at how many times robots fall over. The hands are most likely going to take most of the hits falling to the ground. That’s where the rest of the body comes in and they’re mocking what China is doing in that area because they think the hand is most important. And you know China is working on hands too… They’re the only ones making it all about the hands.
Western robotics development is going on like their goals in artificial intelligence. All they concentrate on is to make AI replicate humans’ exactly. In the meanwhile China is making all the money in applying AI for commercial purposes. The West brags that they have the most powerful semiconductors… but you don’t need them to do everything. That’s how the robotics industry is going to go too.
