At 6 pm on September 30, California time, Tesla AI Day started on time, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk grandly launched a humanoid robot. In the subsequent Demo video, Tesla showed the robot carrying boxes, watering flowers, and working in the Tesla super factory. Musk said that in the future, with the participation of robots, people will be free to choose jobs, and simple repetitive tasks can be done by robots, which will become a choice for humans, not a must. If we can use robots to achieve lower labor costs, it will eventually lead to faster economic development.

According to the International Shipbuilding Network, not only in the automobile manufacturing industry, but also in heavy industries such as shipbuilding in China, the shortage of labor resources is becoming more and more serious. The cost of high-end skilled workers is very high. At present, senior workers in some shipyards have a monthly salary of up to 50,000 yuan, and some have become representatives of the National People's Congress. In many respects, their treatment exceeds that of shipyard management cadres. With the popularization and application of high-end robots, it is foreseeable that a large number of robots will replace high, medium and low-skilled industrial workers in the future. At the same time, high-skilled workers will also become the benchmark for future robot research and development. In the future, with the development of high-end robots, the situation where a lot of money is easy to get and a craftsman is hard to find will change.

This is the first time Tesla has shown the physical body of the robot Optimus humanoid robot without any connection or backup. In fact, it has not been done in the laboratory before. It took only more than half a year to complete the work. It slowly came out and greeted the people at the scene:

It has a battery pack with a capacity of 2.3KWh, which is enough for a full day of work, the computing device is a Tesla SOC with WiFi and 4G network connectivity, and various power control systems are integrated into a single PCB.

"While humans can live on small amounts of food, we can't shut down our metabolism when we're not working, and robots are different," the Tesla engineer said.

Tesla said that much of its experience with Tesla vehicles has been applied to build the Optimus robot.

Vision deep learning models are ported directly from cars to robots. GPS is basically unavailable when navigating indoors, so more points need to be received through the sensor to improve accuracy, but the mechanism for measuring the surrounding traversable area is also common with autonomous driving.

At the same time, Optimus Prime also "learns" humans through motion capture. Taking the handling of items as an example, Tesla staff input actions through wearable devices, and the robot learns through neural networks, from completing the same actions in the same place, to evolving solutions in other scenarios, so as to learn to operate in different environments. Carry different items.

"When you talk about robots, you think of economic development. The fundamental element of the economy is labor. If we can use robots to achieve lower labor costs, it will eventually lead to faster economic development." Musk said that in the future, in the robot's With participation, people can freely choose jobs, where simple repetitive tasks can be done by robots, which will become a choice for humans, not a necessity.