The movement of grabbing plastic blocks with five fingers and putting them into a box according to color is natural. When a person appears and takes a block out of the box, he calmly puts the block back into the box. Once the blocks are organized, stretching time continues. Center your left foot, fold your right foot, place it on your left knee, and join both hands in front of your chest. This is a yoga pose that makes you say ‘Namaste’ (Indian-Nepalese meaning ‘hello’) from your mouth.
This is Tesla’s artificial intelligence (AI) humanoid (humanoid robot) ‘Optimus’, which was unveiled on the 24th (local time). Optimus, which seemed to have difficulty even walking when it was first revealed in September of last year, has evolved into a robot that resembles a human within a year. He surprised the world with his sense of balance when standing on one foot, the delicacy of replicating human hand movements, and the adaptability to complete tasks even in unexpected situations. This is because it shows that the day is not far when robots will replace people as housekeepers and factory workers.
The appearance of Tesla Optimus revealed in the video looked so natural that some even suspected that it was computer graphics (CG). AI experts who watched the video said, “This is an area already possible with AI technology,” and evaluated it as evidence that AI robots are developing rapidly enough to perform daily tasks.
Body movements that closely resemble human joint movements show that it is possible to finely control the position and movement of limbs with its own AI neural network by imitating human behavior using a camera sensor. Tesla’s display of Optimus doing yoga appears to be intended to highlight the development of robotics through AI.
Tesla said, “Optimus trains itself and takes action through a built-in neural network based on (collected) video images. “I can calculate and move my arms and legs on my own,” he explained. Nvidia AI researcher Jim Pan wrote on his “It was analyzed. The fact that Optimus was able to understand the situation through the image sensor and continue working despite human interference is evaluated as having the same structure as the neural network introduced in Tesla’s autonomous driving.
Google is focusing on developing a thinking robot combined with a large language model (LLM). This July, it introduced RT-2, a robot that is stronger at reasoning than the previous version. Under the command to ‘pick up an extinct animal’, the child examines the toys in front of him using a camera sensor and then picks up a dinosaur. When asked, ‘I want to drive a nail in, is there anything here that can be used instead of a hammer?’, the person may pick up a rock and say ‘a rock.’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has stated that robots can work in factories or be used as butlers, housekeepers, and human companions. At last year’s Tesla ‘AI Day’, it was said that the price of this robot would be less than $20,000 (27 million won) within the next three to five years. If Optimus is commercialized, a ‘robot worker’ will be born who works without vacation with an annual salary of 30 million won. Aaron Levy, CEO of U.S. cloud company Box, commented to X, “Commercial AI robots will be a huge market for Tesla.”
In the United States, where manpower shortage continues after the pandemic, the use of robots is increasing, such as coffee shops staffed only by robots and warehouses transported by robots. In New York City, night patrol robots have even appeared. Mass production of humanoids similar to humans will also begin this year. Agility Robotics, an American robotics company, recently completed construction of a factory in Oregon that can produce up to 10,000 robots per year and plans to begin mass production soon. CEO Musk said at last year’s ‘Investor Day’, “In the future society, the ratio between humans and humanoids will exceed 1:1. “We cannot even know now what kind of economy will unfold in such a future,” he said.
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