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Yes, Teleoperated Optimus Robots Are A $Trillion Business Right Now
Some people (or perhaps many) were disappointed to learn that Tesla's Optimus robot was actually being remote operated (or teleoperated) during particular tasks at the recent party (see Is Optimus Autonomous Or Teleoperated?).
These people might feel better if they realized that teleoperated Optimus robots are a trillion dollar business right now. How so?
Consider the teleoperated lab robot described by science fiction author James Blish in his 1957 tetralogy Cities in Flight:
For a wild instant he had thought there was a man on Jupiter already; but as he pulled up just above the platform's roof, he realized that the moving thing inside was - of course - a robot; a misshapen, many-tentacled thing about twice the size of a man. It was working busily with bottles and flasks, of which it seemed to have thousands on benches and shelves all around it The whole enclosure was a litter of what Helmuth took to be chemical apparatus, and off to one side was an object which might have been a microscope...
The robot looked up at him and gesticulated with two or three tentacles...
"This is Doc Barth. How do you like my laboratory?"
Think about it this way. Suppose you bought a Tesla Optimus robot - the current model - and you kept it charging in a alcove in your house. Then, you wanted some task performed, let's say, picking up all of the toys and cast off coats in the living room. The robot could walk to where you were autonomously.
Now, you go online and find a bonded remote operator for the Optimus robot. That person logs in, takes over the Tesla robot, steps out of the alcove and does the work. Maybe you think of something else, like cleaning the kitchen. You instruct the remote operator, and by remote operation of the Tesla Optimus robot, the task is accomplished.
You just pay for the remote operator's time.
Tesla's Optimus robots are already worth $billions, just the way they are.
...Helmuth saw instead that there was a large platform jutting out from the buttress not far below him, just to one side of the rails. It was enclosed and roofed, but the material was transparent. And there was motion inside it...
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