Where Are the Intelligent Robots?

  • Tesla FSD (Supervised Self Driving) is arguably a robot with fast precise responses, in a computationally constrained environment. This is using a similar end to end neural net architecture and is being generalized to their Optimus robot.

  • Advances in computing power will make some robotics applications feasible: hopefully that leads to advances we long hoped for in fluidity of motion and adaptability to the self-presence and the environment that come all too naturally to animals and humans (after some practice).

  • Make robots affordable alternatives to illegal immigrants or foreign factory workers and they'll be everywhere. Right now the R&D can't remotely compete so it's just tech bros acting like they're developing it to get seed money and sell to whomever will buy them later. Smoke and mirrors.