Elon Musk said this would cost less than $20,000 and he's usually spot on with his predictions
Musk is probably right. [Economics of scale] should apply HEAVILY to robots, specially if larger corporations start buying them in large bulks which seems to be the case.
In simpler terms, the higher the production of a product there is, the less expensive it gets. The fixed costs such as facilities and equipment spreads out among each individual robot - so the more robots are being produced the more the fixed costs spreads among them, decreasing these specific added costs.
Of course demand and supply as well as raw materials might play a significant if not larger part, but considering the probable scale of this, I don't think there will be severe bottlenecks in production to make this a significant factor.
What's the use case of Atlas?
For what I can see, it seems it will be industrial use exclusively for Atlas. (They are powerful and noisy so probably not suited for households).
They might make a more family friendly variant tho. They are looking for mass production, that much is clear.
1: Wait for chinkshit alternative
2: Build your own
Once humanoid robots go on the market there will be someone who strips it down and publishes all the info on how they work and how to make one, people will start selling cheaper knockoffs and others will try to make homebrew versions, some of those DIY types will also go into business making cheap ones, this will also likely cause bigger corporations to adjust their prices as well.
They aren't made out of gold and diamonds or plutonium, they are electronic devices they can be replicated and built without the need of billions of dollars especially after the research and development part has already been done.
Ideally can eventually do most jobs humans can, but doesn't need to sleep, doesn't get sick, doesn't need a doctor, can be easily and cheaply repaired or replaced.
It can also work in environments that are either dangerous or practically impossible for human workers such as space, bottom of the ocean, radioactive or hazardous environments.
Imagine a bunch of teleoperated humanoid robots constructing a base on the surface of the moon.
Atlas is and has always been a testing platform. They're learning what they call "athletic intelligence" (i.e. the algorithms for dynamic balance in a complex system of actuators) on Atlas and applying those lessons to products that actually have a use case like Spot (which is a smaller, cheaper, more stable platform) and their packing robots.
>Dr. Pavel, I'm CAI.
Only super rich will be able to afford it
or
It will be subscription only cuck business model
Elon Musk said this would cost less than $20,000 and he's usually spot on with his predictions
>he's usually spot on with his predictions
Keep licking those boots
>he's usually spot on with his predictions
lmao
LMAO
made me laugh
>t. sent from my mars colony in 2022
Nice bait, here is your (You)
Musk is probably right. [Economics of scale] should apply HEAVILY to robots, specially if larger corporations start buying them in large bulks which seems to be the case.
In simpler terms, the higher the production of a product there is, the less expensive it gets. The fixed costs such as facilities and equipment spreads out among each individual robot - so the more robots are being produced the more the fixed costs spreads among them, decreasing these specific added costs.
Of course demand and supply as well as raw materials might play a significant if not larger part, but considering the probable scale of this, I don't think there will be severe bottlenecks in production to make this a significant factor.
For what I can see, it seems it will be industrial use exclusively for Atlas. (They are powerful and noisy so probably not suited for households).
They might make a more family friendly variant tho. They are looking for mass production, that much is clear.
1: Wait for chinkshit alternative
2: Build your own
Once humanoid robots go on the market there will be someone who strips it down and publishes all the info on how they work and how to make one, people will start selling cheaper knockoffs and others will try to make homebrew versions, some of those DIY types will also go into business making cheap ones, this will also likely cause bigger corporations to adjust their prices as well.
They aren't made out of gold and diamonds or plutonium, they are electronic devices they can be replicated and built without the need of billions of dollars especially after the research and development part has already been done.
>It will be subscription only cuck business model
You will own nothing remember?
What's the use case of Atlas?
>use case
fixing Gnome
Ideally can eventually do most jobs humans can, but doesn't need to sleep, doesn't get sick, doesn't need a doctor, can be easily and cheaply repaired or replaced.
It can also work in environments that are either dangerous or practically impossible for human workers such as space, bottom of the ocean, radioactive or hazardous environments.
Imagine a bunch of teleoperated humanoid robots constructing a base on the surface of the moon.
It still needs to recharge, that technically counts as sleep
Have multiple robots so you always have some working at all times while others are charging.
You could probably swap out batteries, which would make it no longer sleep break but more like 15 min launch break
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Atlas is and has always been a testing platform. They're learning what they call "athletic intelligence" (i.e. the algorithms for dynamic balance in a complex system of actuators) on Atlas and applying those lessons to products that actually have a use case like Spot (which is a smaller, cheaper, more stable platform) and their packing robots.
The best thing that will come out of this is MMA or better yet live ammo mecha fights