Robert Playter
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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that not only can we do this parkour mobility thing, but we can pick up and move heavy things.
Because if you're gonna work in a manufacturing environment, that's what you gotta be able to do.
And for the reasons I explained to you earlier, it's not trivial to do so.
Changing the center of mass by picking up a 50 pound block for a robot that weighs 150 pounds, that's a lot to accommodate.
So we're trying to show that we can do that.
So it's totally been energizing.
We see the next phase of Atlas being more dexterous hands that can manipulate and grab more things, that we're gonna start by moving big things around that are heavy and that affect balance.
And why is that?
Well, really tiny dexterous things
probably are gonna be hard for a while yet.
Maybe you could go build a special purpose robot arm for stuffing chips into electronics boards, but we don't really wanna do really fine work like that.
I think more coursework,
where you're using two hands to pick up and balance an unwieldy thing, maybe in a manufacturing environment, maybe in a construction environment.
Those are the things that we think robots are going to be able to do with the level of dexterity that they're going to have in the next few years.
And that's where we're headed.
And I think, you know, Elon has seen the same thing, right?
He's talking about using the robots in a manufacturing environment.
We think there's something very interesting there about having this two-armed robot
Well, I think the thing that he's certainly been learning by building car factories is what that looks like and scaling that.
By scaling, you can get efficiencies that drive costs down very well.
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