Tesla’s Optimus Robot humanoid Robots Coming in the Near Future

Tesla debuted its humanoid Optimus robot AI Day 2022. Musk envisions humanoid robots will someday do our shopping or take over from humans toiling on production lines.

If his vision holds true, it could signal to transform the world as profoundly as the automobile or smartphone in three to five years when they go on sale.

1,000-plus people crammed onto a giant shop floor at Tesla’s offices in Palo Alto, California when the first Tesla Bot walked across the stage.

I did appreciate the engineering achievement when seeing the computer-controlled biped pivot at the waist without toppling, powered by a computer on its chest, moved by a collection of gleaming cylindrical actuators, studded with status LEDs and cabled with a copper nervous system.

I heard its cooling fans blow and, later, strained to heft the 42-pound block of copper and electronics that constitutes each 25-processor Dojo AI training tile.

Tesla is designing its own actuators, tightly packaged sets of gears, motors, sensors, and controls that act like human muscles. The company is drawing from the team that designs Tesla cars’ drive units. At AI Day, engineers showed Tesla’s calculations on how it settled on a collection of six actuators for the whole robot that best optimized cost, ease of manufacturing, speed, torque, mass, and efficiency.
Tesla is drawing lessons from human anatomy, for example, employing a complex four-bar hinging mechanism similar to the human knee that adapts an actuator’s differing needs for strength or speed depending on how far the knee is bent.
Tesla is using the same AI technology behind FSD to guide Optimus, too. That includes the occupancy network, an AI system that converts camera input data into a 3D map of everything around a robot.
Tesla is building its own custom data center technology, Dojo, to train the multiple AI systems that go into a vehicle or robot. So far, Tesla has built three cabinets of Dojo hardware, and already it can handle video training data in ways impossible with the earlier approach using 72 of Nvidia’s high-end A100 processors.
For locomotion, Optimus combines a physics model that simulates a virtual robot with real-world sensor data that gauges how the robot is performing. The walking technology has grown more sophisticated: first steps were in February; Optimus’ pelvis started rocking in July; the swinging arm motion accompanying its strides started in August; and Optimus’ toes first lifted off the ground in September.

“The Tesla team is so far ahead and so confident in its pace of innovation that it doesn’t worry about sharing details of what they do,” Ferragu said.

Musk hopes Optimus will “help millions of people,” freeing humans from boring, dangerous, and repetitive work.

In his most starry-eyed moment, he said robots could lead to “a future of abundance, a future where there is no poverty, where people can have whatever they want regarding products and services.

“It is a fundamental transformation of civilization as we know it.”

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