Here come the humanoid robots, Musk: "They will take care of the elderly"

Musk wants to deploy humanoid robots "by the millions" in his factories, and in the near future they will "take care of the elderly".

Honda will use "Avatar", the remote surgeon.

's prophecies

come true (but collide with failures due to high production costs).

Tesla has an ambitious plan: to deploy thousands of humanoid robots within its factories, eventually expanding "to millions around the world", as its founder Elon Musk put it: "Tesla Bot will be real".

But it's not just the American auto company, other manufacturers - such as

- have also leveraged robotic technology to expand automation in car factories.

Musk's humanoid robots, "

," will initially be used in manufacturing and logistics to cope with a labor shortage.

But in the medium and long term, the declared goal of the richest man in the world Musk is to use humanoid robots - with features and characteristics increasingly similar to humans -

. 

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The humanoid robot Sophia

But these robots are expensive and have problems with "unpredictable situations", experts say that to be successful, Tesla will have to demonstrate that their robots can perform more actions without "scripts" (programming):

All the failures of the past

The biped

robot - by Isaac Asimov, the most famous science fiction writer of the 1950s, creator of the "robot trilogy" - of the Japanese car manufacturer Honda, had served as the "face" for the company but after more than two decades of development, it is not yet commercialized. 

Honda is now focusing on a disaster relief robot, and "Avatar" robot:

, with the goal of deploying the machines in the 1930s of the next decade. 

has

humanoid

, its promotional videos have gone viral on the web, but the loss-making US firm has changed hands several times, with

,

and

then

they became the owners.

Founder Marc Raibert said: "Right now, most robots used in factories do very repetitive, very specific and precision-oriented jobs. And that's not what we will see in the future. We see a future where robots become much smarter, much more useful, they really contribute to productivity and safety and become part of our daily life. " 

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A robot dog with megaphone to give safety instructions to Shanghai in lockdown

In 2020,

purchased two humanoid "Digit" robots from Oregon-based Agility Robotics: the automaker wanted to

.

But the project remained under development.

Between 2007 and 2012, however,

have teamed up to develop robots with human features - the "R2" prototype - designed to specialize in assembly and space exploration.

But the US agency later declared that the project had been abandoned. 

Several robot startups, such as "

", have also gone out of business, in the latter case, because they failed to market their products.