I heard a discussion of the Optimus robot. One point made is that the
robot is likely being designed to be general purpose. Thus it is likely
to be tested in many environments ... INCLUDING THE HOME!<p>I have a deep robot background (e.g. 1 of 2 Unimation Researchers, IBM
Research robot work, CMU robot research for Human/Robot cooperation to
change a car tire, etc.), an AI background (e.g. Masters level
machine vision work, research in Design-To-Build systems, commercial
software product from IBM to do Expert Systems, etc.), and current work
in electronics (microprocessors and FPGAs).<p>Who do I have to marry to get on the alpha-prototype selection list?
(email axiomcas@gmail.com)<p>Is anyone aware of this being contemplated at Tesla?
Does such a list exist?
Or is it just random speculation?<p>I have thousands of books that need to be cataloged, categorized, and
sorted. It seems like the perfect task for a robot as they are all
different sizes, different colors, different weights, different ages
(and thus hard to read the covers), and different subjects. It is a
"simple recognition and manipulation task" but requires a LOT of work
skills such as bending for low shelves, real-world physics to align
the books without falling, vision to read covers and find books,
limited space motions as the bookshelves are close together, grip
location selection, etc. The classification task would require network
lookup (e.g. amazon search). It is a limited domain with a rich set
of separable issues.<p>Library work is a better domain than the kitchen since it is hard
but focused. You don't break dishes, deal with water or fire, or
represent a hazard to people or pets.