Tesla Bot helped Elon Musk rise to the second place in the list of the richest people in the world. After the presentation, at which the businessman announced the release of a new android assistant, his fortune increased by $ 1.5 billion. Investors were not even embarrassed by the fact that the finished prototype of the car was not shown on stage. Musk promised that the new robot will go to the store, deal with other everyday problems and, most likely, will not be able to harm a person. Kommersant FM asked experts to assess the prospects for the new development. Lilia Galyavieva with details.
There have already been a lot of anthropomorphic robots on the market: Japanese, South Korean and American companies offered their versions. But perhaps the most eccentric entrepreneur of our time, Elon Musk, again found something to surprise and showed the Tesla Bot concept. The difference between this robot and all other anthropomorphic ones is that it looks completely like a human. The model has the same body proportions, including height. The weight, however, is a little more than usual, and the speed is only five miles per hour. But Musk assures: the robot will take on all boring tasks. By them, the billionaire understands, for example, shopping trips.
The robot itself has not yet been built, but a man in a tight-fitting suit came out at the presentation: white fabric and a black head from head to toe. The concept of the future robot even danced. And Musk urged not to be afraid of the uprising of the machines.
But how realistic is such a development? Boston Dynamics’ developments are now considered to be breakthroughs on the market. More recently, inventors have shown that they were able to teach their cars parkour: robots very cleverly overcame an obstacle course and fell like humans. But in form they are far from anthropomorphic – they are either dogs or bulky machines that only vaguely resemble a human body. Elon Musk promises, in fact, to create cybermen. Ilya Chekh, General Director of Motorika, explains why such developments are still far away:
“The forecast is 30-40 years. Until technology got to the point where it became massive, safe and highly useful. Cyborgs are, in fact, a combination of organic and inorganic matter. And the problem, which has not yet been solved, is how to safely and functionally interconnect tissues, which sensors to use, and so on. What exists now is all short-term technologies. We can read some parameters with the help of electrodes or stimulate some brain segments, but all this requires constant replacement later. We do not yet know how to decode individual signals from neurons – there is still a lot of work to do ”.
What if technology leaps forward in the near future and Musk actually introduces anthropomorphic robots to the market? Due to their specific form, their use in everyday life will depend on the “filling” – artificial intelligence, which will control the machine. And this can be difficult, says Roman Dushkin, Science and Technology Director of the Agency for Artificial Intelligence:
“In artificial intelligence, as in science, there is the Moravec paradox. It lies in the fact that high-level cognitive processes such as perception, thinking, decision-making are easy enough to simulate on a computer. But low-level processes, for example, how we unconsciously control our limbs, are almost impossible to reproduce in robots. And one of the tasks of such anthropomorphic robots will be to train such operational neural networks that control individual components – joints, limbs, how the robot moves in a domestic environment. “
It turns out that Musk is heating up the market again and is dreaming of a great technological future rather than actually preparing a breakthrough. However, the ideas of an eccentric billionaire always seem impracticable at first glance, but in reality it turns out that the Cybertruck truck is strong and powerful, and Tesla accelerates faster than some sports cars, and flights to Mars are already being seriously discussed.
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