Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
by inglor_cz on Friday August 20, 2021 @06:03AM
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The border between "improving existing technologies with innovative engineering" and "technological breakthroughs" is pretty murky, though.
For example, Raptor engines are the first Full Flow Staged Combustion engines to ever fly and they should be cheap to manufacture on top of that. Orders of magnitude cheaper than other rocket engines, with target price tag lower than a million USD per piece.
By my standards, this is a breakthrough. By your standards, this may just be innovative engineering. We can both argue our positions plausibly.
I can definitely see applications of having at least semireliable robots on Mars or Moon, though. For starters, they need not mind the vacuum and the radiation.
For example, Raptor engines are the first Full Flow Staged Combustion engines to ever fly and they should be cheap to manufacture on top of that. Orders of magnitude cheaper than other rocket engines, with target price tag lower than a million USD per piece.
By my standards, this is a breakthrough. By your standards, this may just be innovative engineering. We can both argue our positions plausibly.
I can definitely see applications of having at least semireliable robots on Mars or Moon, though. For starters, they need not mind the vacuum and the radiation.