As Elon Musk demonstrates a humanoid robot, we explore Engineered Arts - a humanoid robot factory - with the creator of a highly realistic looking robot. Experts analyse Musk's proposals so far, looking at how these robots could become a reality
Produced and directed by Tom Hannen. Additional filming by Richard Topping, Nicola Stansfield, and Horacio JonesRICHARD WATERS: And when he first talked about this, he had a human dressed up as a robot dancing on stage. And I think a lot of people thought it was a joke.
And they'll blend the CGI with little bits of real footage. And most people won't make the distinction between what's real and what's CGI. ELON MUSK: The Tesla bot will be real. We're setting it such that it is at a mechanical level, at a physical level, you can run away from it.And most likely overpower it. So hopefully, that doesn't ever happen. But you never know. Five miles an hour, you can run past it and that'd be fine.
And they will say space rocket, space travel. I'm going to fly to the moon. I'm going to step into my flying car and go to work. I'm going to get on a hoverboard and whiz down the street, and I'm going to have a robot butler in my house that brings me drinks. RICHARD WATERS: With Musk, I think we really have to think about two different types of announcements. I think of the things that are achievable. Maybe they're ambitious. Maybe his timelines are a little short for what it'll take.
And quite frankly, we don't know yet, he's been promising self-driving cars for years and they haven't arrived. This is how Musk operates. He sets these big, ambitious goals. And I think humanoid robots fits into that second category of just a hugely ambitious idea. It may take years, it may take decades. Probably, the latter.--and navigate through a world built for humans and eliminate dangerous, repetitive, and boring tasks.
Half of south of England was in flames at one point when these machines just first started to arrive on these farms. So I think that tells you something about the way that we often find automation and threatening. And I don't think that's irrational. When they heard about ENIAC, they went to Cambridge and they built a computer of their own. That computer works on payroll, worked on managing inventory, and they sold it to others as well. So if a tea and cakes company can introduce business computing, then why not car company introduced domestic robots?
Until you get to a point where you can't actually tell the robot from a person, in which case it's perfectly fine again. It's interesting there are actually two graphs. There's the dynamic and there's the static. What I mean by that? If you use the robots for helping autistic children learn, for example, social cues and how typically developing people act and react, because that's one of the problems that autistic children have. They don't understand how they can express their feelings in a way that others understand. The robots with extremely accurate faces would be extremely good for that. So it really depends on the application.RICHARD WATERS: I remember talking to a very senior person at Google a decade ago.
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