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I think they could see use in cities for delivery or patrol type jobs. The stakes are so much lower for a 50kg robot moving at walking pace compared to a car.
by gamegoblin 5y ago
I think they could see use in cities for delivery or patrol type jobs.
The stakes are so much lower for a 50kg robot moving at walking pace compared to a car.
Consider a pizza delivery operation. You could imagine having dozens of robots delivering pizzas, and even if you had to have one or two humans driving around town getting robots out of stuck edge cases when they happened, it could still be a net gain.
Consider that Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog is already operating on industrial sites today. Having it stand upright is not too different from a deployability point of view (see the Atlas robot).
- jazzyjackson 5y agoDo you know how little pizza delivery guys get paid? Not a chance they get replaced by a million dollar robot this century. And lest we forget: “HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia” https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/us/hitchbot-robot-beheaded-philadelphia-feat/ https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/us/hitchbot-robot-beheaded-ph...
- gamegoblin 5y agoI assume if Tesla actually does intend to build them, they will be targeting a price point in the tens of thousands instead of $1M range. That is, priced comparable to a car. If a robot cost say, $50k, they could seriously be cost effective compared to humans if they don’t have a ton of maintenance costs.
- rlt 5y ago> Consider that Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog is already operating on industrial sites today. In fact, SpaceX has one in Boxa Chica. https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-robot-dog-wreckage-exploded-starship-rocket-2021-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-robot-dog-wreckage-ex...