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It's a hypothetical deployment but it's reasonable to expect. These robots will be very valuable, and everyone will want one. It's not going to become a housemaid in a few years. But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. Moravec's paradox is still in play, but advancement in AI chips will slowly overcome it.



> But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly.

Worth calling out that Hyundai is a major investor in Boston Dynamics.

FTA: This journey will start with Hyundai—in addition to investing in us, the Hyundai team is building the next generation of automotive manufacturing capabilities, and it will serve as a perfect testing ground for new Atlas applications.


They own 80% of BD. Softbank owns the remaining 20%


Wiki says it is 100% owned by Hyandai.

    > Boston Dynamics has been owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020, but having only completed the acquisition in June 2021.


But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly.

I believe robots are currently making car parts in abundance. The robots usually are like a box with a hydraulic arm or something equivalent.

The specially and especially hard part of humanoid robots is justifying the cost and complexity of the construction by having them by "walk-on replacements" for humans and so they have failed entirely at being that.


> But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly.

What can humanoid robots making car parts do, that the already-existing and already widely deployed robots making car parts can't?


Without knowing the specifics, that would be whichever things prevented Tesla from being run as a lights-out factory already.


Re-tool an entire factory overnight in response to a change in design of the car, or in fact to produce airplanes instead


I don’t think you understand how hard it is to retool and rearrange a factory.


I’m saying if you have a collection of humanoids and general purpose tooling, you can adapt much faster.

I don’t literally mean retool a conventional production line in one night


So basically just robots with tools? It might work.




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