Tesla released a new video and showed off the new abilities of its humanoid robot Optimus. I think it will also attract the attention of Tesla investors. Because the Optimus robot has an importance in Tesla's future. I guess that people who are generally interested in science and the future of humanity will learn a lot from this video. At first glance, his movements seem a little simple, especially when compared to, say, Atlas' somersaulting robots. However, there is a lot of information in the details. The first thing that attracts attention is that it is autonomous 1x. The explanation for this is that this robot is completely autonomous, that is, it is not managed remotely by teleoperation. He makes his own decisions and the speed of the video is 1x, so we are watching the real speed of the robot here, not an accelerated video.
Most of the time, in these types of videos, teleoperation can be done, that is, someone can control the robot remotely or the video is accelerated. There are neither; here we are examining in real time how a robot places different objects and batteries into a box in a real Tesla factory, if I'm not mistaken. Below, Tesla explained that Optimus has been busy learning new skills lately. Here we learn that Tesla performed this process completely autonomously, and Tesla explains that the robot's neural network was trained end-to-end for this. It works in real time and does this using the robot's own FSD computer, the Full Self Drive computer that enables autonomous driving in Teslas.
This is very important because we are now faced with a robot that learns completely and makes and implements its own decisions based on what it has learned. It uses only two-dimensional cameras, just like Tesla cars. Apart from that, as you know, they have sensors on their fingertips. There are also power sensors. By using them, he figures out on his own what he is touching, where he should put it, how he should hold it, and what force he should apply. What draws our attention when the video is accelerated is that the robot balances itself on its legs. Now you can say that we would plant a robot here and it would do this job much faster. So a robot designed for a specific purpose would actually do the job much faster. But here it shows us this.
This robot can do other work in the factory, just like a human, and then come and install these batteries. Therefore, it is extremely important for him to be able to maintain his balance on these two legs, to move his body while keeping his legs fixed, and then to be able to walk when he is done, Tesla emphasized this here. He says he needs to make very specific movements. Because he doesn't give much opportunity to make mistakes. If you pay attention, the compartments in the box where the batteries fit are only narrow enough to fit one battery. That's why it needs to work sensitively. They emphasized that he achieved this. Its own neural network automatically finds the next available space. He decides where to take the battery and how to place it there.
One of the parts that impressed me most in the video is that while placing the batteries, you can see that the robot made a mistake and the battery fell over. But then the robot realizes its mistake and inserts the battery correctly. This is of course very important, robots will make mistakes just like us humans. It is important how they correct these errors, it is important that they are aware of the error, here the robot realizes that it cannot achieve the task and that it needs to change its maneuver to achieve the task and makes this correction. It was one of the points where I felt the idea of a humanoid robot the most in the video. In the later part of the video, we see many Tesla robots being trained side by side. They all perform different tasks.
Some Tesla enemies on Twitter and social media looked at this video and said that they were controlling these robots remotely, teleoperated. No, it is not like that, at least what Tesla said is not teleoperation. That's how they learn. After learning, the robot we just watched performs the task on its own. When you look at that part of the video again, there are robots and their trainers side by side. Trainers wear three-dimensional virtual reality glasses and teach robots in the virtual world by making movements. It's a very nice place by the way, not a very futuristic place. People robots side by side three dimensional glasses.
If you think of Tesla as just an automobile company, I think you are wrong. Tesla says; We are testing Optimus in one of our factories. This is the real test, and fewer and fewer mistakes people have to fix. So, of course, what this robot does, a human can do faster. The important thing is that the robot learns from its mistakes and constantly accelerates. In the following part, they increased the video speed to 6x, so I think this is the speed it will reach in the future. But this is only possible by being trained like a baby, step by step. Then it turns out the robot is wandering around the factory. This is where the idea of hominid comes into play. In other words, they have shown that it is not a robot with a single fixed task, but can move to another task when it finishes this task.
They published this on Twitter through an account called Tesla Optimus. Milan Kovac is the person responsible for the development of this robot at Tesla. He has some explanations. This works entirely through neural network. Its own end-to-end computer, its own two-dimensional cameras, sensors that understand touch. With all this, he works 100% autonomously, he says, after receiving certain training. This is important, they have repeated and emphasized this dozens of times. But Tesla's enemies will definitely say the same things again. Because they manage this remotely and Optimus takes longer and longer tours of our factory. Elon Musk had a tweet after this video and said that this robot currently has eleven freedoms of movement in its hands. This means the number of movements we can make at work.
Of course, the robot is a limited tool; some special devices must be attached to its joints to perform all movements. It will increase from 11 to 22. In other words, this predicts that what the robot can do with its hands will increase. This was what Elon Musk always wanted. If I am going to make a robot do work, it must be able to behave just like humans. It should be where people are. More importantly, he said, they should be able to use their hands like humans. We see that it has actually progressed a lot in this direction. Of course, when we look at the video, we also see this; There is still a long time for the Tesla bot to participate in production processes in a meaningful way. But if we just look at the development from the previous video here or since the day the Tesla bot was first introduced, it is clear that we are on the right track.
It's hard to know which company will win the humanoid robot race. Tesla is one of the candidates, but it is certain that the winner will achieve truly tremendous growth. Because there are two problems in the world. Firstly, the population is decreasing, and due to the decreasing population, personnel shortages arise, especially in the production and service sectors. These robots will step in to compensate for this. Secondly, the way to deal with inflation is to increase productivity. I think these robots will also increase productivity in this sense. Currently, many robots in different forms and shapes are used in both production and logistics operations. Their feature is that they are like humans. Therefore, they can blend into the environments where people work more easily and perform their duties as people do, without requiring a special layout and design setup for them. In this context, it was an interesting video. But I think there are still many ways to go. I hope it caught your interest.
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