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MIT roboticist calls out Elon Musk's 'fantasy' of humanoid robot assistants
How much of the Tesla bubble is based on unrealistic hype?
> Rodney Brooks was the co-founder of iRobot, the creator of the home robot vacuum Roomba. He recently wrote that it will be practically impossible for robots to fulfill the same roles as people, despite Tesla's stated goal of having robots do so with its product, Optimus.
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> "In my opinion, believing that this will happen any time within decades is pure fantasy thinking," wrote Brooks on his personal blog. "But many are predicting that it will happen in as soon as two years, and the more conservative 'hypenotists' believe it will have significant economic impact within five years."
Yahoo News
MIT roboticist calls out Elon Musk for 'pure fantasy' vision of humanoid robot assistants: '[They] will be long gone and mostly conveniently forgotten'
"A lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today’s humanoid robots."
Stacker News
MIT roboticist calls out Elon Musk's 'fantasy' of humanoid robot assistants \ stacker news
How much of the Tesla bubble is based on unrealistic hype? Rodney Brooks was the co-founder of iRobot, the creator of the home robot vacuum Roomba....
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