>is it even plausible?
The last commercial anthropomorphic was the Willow Garage PR2 back in 2010. It weighed 600 pounds, and had a wheeled base. Each arm had a max payload of 4 pounds. It cost $250,000. The company went bankrupt because there wasn't anything you could do with it.
The tesla bot is supposed to be bipedal, only weigh 125 pounds, and have a "arm extend lift" of 10 lbs. Is that per arm, or both together? Even BD Atlas weighs 196 pounds, and it doesn't have hands!
Like, any one of their numbers would be exceptional. All together, and you are definitely sacrificing something. Either onboard compute is minimal, or it has a battery life measured in dozens of minutes. Something.
They claim a deadlift of 150 lbs. I don't want to say "impossible!", but... difficult? Just holding 150 lbs with any of the robotic hands you can buy on the market today would be hard or impossible.
None of the five finger hands today are as compact as shown in the concept renders. If it does ship with a five finger hand, (stupid, pointlessly expensive) the forearms would be far bulkier. An easy bet is that the first gen will ship with a three finger gripper.
That is, if it even ships at all. BD Handle is a much better design for a humanoid-ish industrial robot. It's going to be simpler, faster and lighter for the same payload as this hypothetical Tesla bot.
The last commercial anthropomorphic was the Willow Garage PR2 back in 2010. It weighed 600 pounds, and had a wheeled base. Each arm had a max payload of 4 pounds. It cost $250,000. The company went bankrupt because there wasn't anything you could do with it.
The tesla bot is supposed to be bipedal, only weigh 125 pounds, and have a "arm extend lift" of 10 lbs. Is that per arm, or both together? Even BD Atlas weighs 196 pounds, and it doesn't have hands!
Like, any one of their numbers would be exceptional. All together, and you are definitely sacrificing something. Either onboard compute is minimal, or it has a battery life measured in dozens of minutes. Something.
They claim a deadlift of 150 lbs. I don't want to say "impossible!", but... difficult? Just holding 150 lbs with any of the robotic hands you can buy on the market today would be hard or impossible.
None of the five finger hands today are as compact as shown in the concept renders. If it does ship with a five finger hand, (stupid, pointlessly expensive) the forearms would be far bulkier. An easy bet is that the first gen will ship with a three finger gripper.
That is, if it even ships at all. BD Handle is a much better design for a humanoid-ish industrial robot. It's going to be simpler, faster and lighter for the same payload as this hypothetical Tesla bot.