BLOOMBERG – Elon Musk, Masayoshi Son and other tech leaders have bet on a future that includes human-like robots, but building this technology is challenging, expensive and of questionable benefit, according to an expert in robotics and artificial intelligence. “It’s incredibly difficult to make genuinely convincing humanoid robots,” said Kate Devlin, author of Turned On: […]
Musk's Texas company now is floating ambitious plans to deploy thousands of humanoid robots, known as Tesla Bot or Optimus, within its factories, expanding eventually to millions around the world, according to job postings.