Tesla CEO Elon Musk Rejects Idea For Self-Healing, Human Skin-Wrapped Terminator-Like Robots: 'Pointless'
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Rejects Idea For Self-Healing, Human Skin-Wrapped Terminator-Like Robots: 'Pointless'
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk on Sunday dismissed an innovation from Japan to bind engineered skin to humanoid robots allowing for it to self-heal like the cyborg in the 1984 sci-fi movie The Terminator.
特斯拉公司CEO埃隆·馬斯克週日否認了日本的一項創新，即將人造皮膚綁定到人形機器人上，使它能像1984年科幻電影《終結者》中的半機械人那樣自愈。
What Happened: "Pointless," Musk wrote in response to an X user who flagged the innovation from the University of Tokyo. The University said in a statement last month that the innovation, developed by a team led by Professor Shoji Takeuchi, allows for self-healing in robots, among other things.
發生了什麼： 針對一位X用戶提出的關於東京大學創新的意見，馬斯克回覆說“毫無意義”。大學上個月在一份聲明中表示，由竹內正司教授領導的團隊開發的創新可以使機器人自我修復，還有其他功能。
Pointless
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2024
毫無意義
——埃隆·馬斯克(@elonmusk)2024年7月7日
Musk's Tesla is already developing a humanoid robot by the name of Optimus which resembles a human with moving hands capable of performing tasks around a factory. The robot, however, has no skin.
馬斯克的特斯拉公司已經在研發名爲Optimus的人形機器人，它類似於一個有移動手臂的人類，能夠在工廠周圍執行任務。不過，這個機器人沒有皮膚。
Two Optimus bots are currently employed in Tesla's Fremont factory, taking cells off the end of the production line and placing them in containers, Musk confirmed in early June.
據馬斯克在6月初確認，特斯拉公司的弗裏蒙特工廠目前正在使用兩個Optimus機器人，在生產線末端取出細胞並將其放入容器中。
Why It Matters: During Tesla's annual shareholder meeting last month, Musk said that there will be at least one humanoid robot for every person in the world in the future, implying a total humanoid robot population of at least 10 billion or more, of which the EV company will have a significant share.
爲什麼重要：在特斯拉公司上月的年度股東大會上，馬斯克表示，在未來，每個人將擁有至少一個人形機器人，意味着全球人形機器人的總數將達到至少1000億個或更多，其中電動汽車公司將佔據重要的份額。
"While autonomous vehicle is a $5-$7 trillion market cap situation, Optimus is a $25 trillion market cap situation," Musk, who is known to over-hype his company's products, then said. The CEO himself admitted that he is "pathologically optimistic" but delivers in the end.
“雖然自動駕駛汽車是一個市值爲5-7萬億美元的情況，但Optimus則是一個市值爲25萬億美元的情況，”馬斯克（他以誇張公司產品而聞名）提到。首席執行官本人承認，他是“病態樂觀”，但最終會交付。
Following a major hardware revision by the end of this year or early next year, Tesla expects to commence limited production of the Optimus to work in its factories and test its capabilities, the CEO added.
在今年年底或明年年初進行重大硬件更新後，特斯拉預計開始有限的Optimus生產，以在其工廠中工作並測試其功能，CEO補充道。
Last week, Musk also considered making a robot resembling TARS from the Christopher Nolan movie Interstellar, in addition to its humanoid robot Optimus.
上週，馬斯克還考慮製造一個類似於克里斯托弗·諾蘭電影《星際穿越》中的TARS機器人，除了人形機器人Optimus外。
"Maybe Tesla should built it. Would be so cute," Musk wrote on X in response to a video of a functional, walking TARS replica.
“也許特斯拉應該製造這個。它會很可愛，”馬斯克在回覆一份功能性行走的TARS複製品視頻時在X上寫道。
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