**The Rise of Semi-Sentient Robots and Elon Musk's Ambitions**

Are semi-sentient robots on wheels a step towards creating humanoid forms? It kind of makes sense to put that onto a humanoid form, as our abilities in sensors and batteries and actuators are quite impressive. We think we'll probably have a prototype sometime next year, which will basically look like... well, it's hard to imagine just yet, but we're excited about the possibilities.

In fact, just as Elon Musk is announcing his plans for humanoid robots, a human dancer in a robot suit came out and capered around to dubstep music. It's probably just a coincidence that at the same time, federal investigators are looking at the autopilot on Teslas and their tendency to crash into parked emergency vehicles. Don't worry, folks; we're not too worried about this one. Look instead at the person in the suit dancing - it's a robot.

**Boston Dynamics: The Company with a Dog that Can Scare You**

There's a company called Boston Dynamics that has gone through quite a few owners over the years. Google had them for a while, but realized that maybe not being the best PR for a company was a good idea. People already think that maybe knows too much about us and is a little bit creepy to own robots that look like Terminators. So, they've decided to sell this company.

Boston Dynamics has been working on humanoid robots for 10 years now. They're still falling over a lot, but they have made some impressive progress. In fact, their humanoid robot did parkour in a video that's quite impressive. It's not easy to do, and it took more than one take to get right.

**The Quirks of Tech Startup Founders**

To be a technology startup founder, you seem to need to be a little... unusual. Tim Cook, the current CEO of Apple, was said to be "quiet and dull" around him compared to Steve Jobs, who was known for being a bit wild. Even Jeff Bezos and Larry Page of Google have been described as a bit eccentric.

It's not just Apple; other tech founders seem to share this trait. You need to be willing to take risks, push boundaries, and maybe even think you can change the world. As Steve Jobs once said, "The world was made for people who are crazy enough to think they can change it." It's a philosophy that seems to work for many of these founders.

**Megalomania and Changing the World**

This idea of changing the world, however, has its critics. Some might call it megalomania - an excessive or unrealistic ambition. But when you learn that everything around you is made up by people who are not necessarily smarter than you, something shifts inside. You realize that you can make a difference.

Elon Musk himself seems to embody this philosophy. He's always talking about changing the world and making humanity a multi-planetary species. It's hard to ignore his confidence and conviction. As someone watching from the sidelines, it's fascinating to see how this all plays out.

**The Future of Robotics and Tesla**

Of course, not everyone is as optimistic about Elon Musk's plans for robots and Teslas. There are concerns about safety and reliability - after all, federal investigators are looking into the autopilot system on Teslas and their tendency to crash into parked emergency vehicles. But for now, let's just enjoy the spectacle of a human dancer in a robot suit dancing to dubstep music.

We'll have to wait and see what Elon Musk's humanoid robots will look like when they finally arrive next year. In the meantime, it's fun to speculate about what the future holds for robotics and transportation technology.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is twit just got a recall my wife drives a chevy bolt electric vehicle and uh chevy it's gonna cost them they say 1.8 billion dollars is getting them all back and replacing the batteries i guess they had a problem with the batteries uh you know i think two there were two car fires out of i don't know 20 or 30 000 cars maybe more um but you know good for them they're they're being responsible they're replacing the batteries so uh for now we uh we can't charge it up all the way you don't generally with electric vehicles anyway you charge it to 90 usually unless you know you're going farther and we don't most importantly discharge it all the way they're trying to kind of narrow the range of charge and discharge and then this is the scary part they say oh i only should charge during the day while you keep an eye on it and in case it breaks into flames and immediately after charging park it outside away from the house that's scary um i you know i'm going to point out this is a good time to point out that anything that can hold enough juice to move a two-ton vehicle down the road at 70 miles an hour that's a lot of energy is gonna have a ton of energy in there and almost every technology has the capability of explosively releasing that energy gasoline have you ever heard of a car fire oh yeah a few of those hardly a movie goes by without a car exploding we don't go oh i'm never driving one of those again those things is dangerous uh hydrogen sure sure there's hydrogen vehicles toyota make some others do there's hydrogen trucks uh remember the hindenburg yeah hydrogen but again uh i actually asked our car guy sama bill salmond about that he said those tanks the toyotas putting on the mirai and other hydrogen vehicles those tanks you could explode a nuclear bomb next to them they wouldn't well i doubt that's true but you know they're they're pretty puncture resilient but you know if you've got a smartphone you we've all seen the videos usually hysterical of a smartphone bursting into flame in somebody's pocket something to be aware of lithium-ion batteries uh store a lot of energy in a small space and if that energy is released quickly it could you know cause a surprise hello even a fire so we'll be we'll be uh we'll be driving that car a little more judiciously until we can get that replaced nevertheless i have to say i've driven uh we i had a tesla i have a ford electric now i uh we've driven the we have the bolt i like electric vehicles and i'm not gonna this is not gonna sway me from uh continuing to buy them i like driving them none of them have burst into flames yet as far as as far as i know so okay okay just thought i'd mention that do not get over excited about speaking of tesla's elon musk's bot elon musk said that tesla is going to produce a new humanoid robot in the near future he says our cars are semi-sentient robots on wheels it kind of makes sense to put that onto a humanoid form we're also quite good at sensors and batteries and actuators so we think we'll probably have a prototype sometime next year that basically looks like this and then a human dancer in a robot suit came out and capered around to dubstep music that's probably just a coincidence that at the same time as elon is announcing this dancing robot federal investigators are looking at the autopilot on teslas and their tendency to crash into parked emergency vehicles don't pay no attention to that says elon look at the person in the suit dancing it's a robot promised a lot of things elon has promised a lot of things i'm not gonna be too worried about uh the tesla robot next year there's a company i don't know if you've seen the video boston dynamics which has gone through quite quite a few owners google had them for a while then realized you know probably not the best pr for a company people already think maybe knows too much about us and maybe is a little bit creepy to own robots that look like terminators probably not a good look so we're going to sell this company they have been boston dynamics they have a dog it's quite impressive spot the robotic dog scary as heck but impressive and they've been working on humanoid robots the kind elon wants to build next year for 10 years they still fall over a lot although there's a great video i don't know if you've seen the video of the boston dynamics humanoid robot doing parkour you know that's that thing where you jump around climb up buildings and stuff pretty impressive they don't mention how many takes they had they took more than one take to do that anyway we'll see elon's just you know elon's elon everybody who everybody who follows him yeah i i for a long time i thought oh my gosh this guy is is the uh you know is the real life version of stark industries you know i mean he's uh this guy's got it going on and then i realized you know he's also got some quirks he's a little different i wonder if it's the case it seems to be that in order to be a technology startup founder you have to be a little cuckoo i was just reading an article about tim cook the current ceo of apple in one of the formal apple execs said it's kind of quiet and dull around here with tim it was so much more exciting when steve steve jobs was running the company yeah yeah because steve would fire you at the drop of a hat it was definitely exciting in the same way you know uh walking over a snake pit would be exciting uh but it seems to be a lot of these guys are kind of kind of wild kind of wild even jeff bezos and larry page of google and they're all kind of they you have to i think you have to be to think i me can change the world i'm going to change the world and uh and you can't stop me and uh even if people don't get it and think i'm crazy uh i'm gonna change the world steve had a great quote about changing the world actually that i i really liked he said it happened to him at some point as a kid he realized that the world around him wasn't created by people any smarter than he is and that in fact he could do anything he wanted oh there's the there's the giant leap isn't it he could he could invent anything he wanted do anything he wanted because the world the way it is is just constructed by other people he says life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you i'll tell you the secret i've met steve jobs i know a little bit about him he's not thinking no smarter than you he's thinking dumber than he is just between you and me he did you know he softened it up a little bit everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were dumber than you well no smarter than you and and this is the important thing you can change it you can influence it once you learn that you'll never be the same again and you know in medical textbooks they call that megalomania um but but you know i you kind of have to have a little bit of that to change the world i think and to say you know what i've got a better idea my idea is so good i'm going to move heaven and earth i don't care who gets in my way to make it happen elon musk perfect example it's just i as somebody who's on the sidelines watching this circus we call tech happen i just find this all quite interesting quite fascinating youthis is twit just got a recall my wife drives a chevy bolt electric vehicle and uh chevy it's gonna cost them they say 1.8 billion dollars is getting them all back and replacing the batteries i guess they had a problem with the batteries uh you know i think two there were two car fires out of i don't know 20 or 30 000 cars maybe more um but you know good for them they're they're being responsible they're replacing the batteries so uh for now we uh we can't charge it up all the way you don't generally with electric vehicles anyway you charge it to 90 usually unless you know you're going farther and we don't most importantly discharge it all the way they're trying to kind of narrow the range of charge and discharge and then this is the scary part they say oh i only should charge during the day while you keep an eye on it and in case it breaks into flames and immediately after charging park it outside away from the house that's scary um i you know i'm going to point out this is a good time to point out that anything that can hold enough juice to move a two-ton vehicle down the road at 70 miles an hour that's a lot of energy is gonna have a ton of energy in there and almost every technology has the capability of explosively releasing that energy gasoline have you ever heard of a car fire oh yeah a few of those hardly a movie goes by without a car exploding we don't go oh i'm never driving one of those again those things is dangerous uh hydrogen sure sure there's hydrogen vehicles toyota make some others do there's hydrogen trucks uh remember the hindenburg yeah hydrogen but again uh i actually asked our car guy sama bill salmond about that he said those tanks the toyotas putting on the mirai and other hydrogen vehicles those tanks you could explode a nuclear bomb next to them they wouldn't well i doubt that's true but you know they're they're pretty puncture resilient but you know if you've got a smartphone you we've all seen the videos usually hysterical of a smartphone bursting into flame in somebody's pocket something to be aware of lithium-ion batteries uh store a lot of energy in a small space and if that energy is released quickly it could you know cause a surprise hello even a fire so we'll be we'll be uh we'll be driving that car a little more judiciously until we can get that replaced nevertheless i have to say i've driven uh we i had a tesla i have a ford electric now i uh we've driven the we have the bolt i like electric vehicles and i'm not gonna this is not gonna sway me from uh continuing to buy them i like driving them none of them have burst into flames yet as far as as far as i know so okay okay just thought i'd mention that do not get over excited about speaking of tesla's elon musk's bot elon musk said that tesla is going to produce a new humanoid robot in the near future he says our cars are semi-sentient robots on wheels it kind of makes sense to put that onto a humanoid form we're also quite good at sensors and batteries and actuators so we think we'll probably have a prototype sometime next year that basically looks like this and then a human dancer in a robot suit came out and capered around to dubstep music that's probably just a coincidence that at the same time as elon is announcing this dancing robot federal investigators are looking at the autopilot on teslas and their tendency to crash into parked emergency vehicles don't pay no attention to that says elon look at the person in the suit dancing it's a robot promised a lot of things elon has promised a lot of things i'm not gonna be too worried about uh the tesla robot next year there's a company i don't know if you've seen the video boston dynamics which has gone through quite quite a few owners google had them for a while then realized you know probably not the best pr for a company people already think maybe knows too much about us and maybe is a little bit creepy to own robots that look like terminators probably not a good look so we're going to sell this company they have been boston dynamics they have a dog it's quite impressive spot the robotic dog scary as heck but impressive and they've been working on humanoid robots the kind elon wants to build next year for 10 years they still fall over a lot although there's a great video i don't know if you've seen the video of the boston dynamics humanoid robot doing parkour you know that's that thing where you jump around climb up buildings and stuff pretty impressive they don't mention how many takes they had they took more than one take to do that anyway we'll see elon's just you know elon's elon everybody who everybody who follows him yeah i i for a long time i thought oh my gosh this guy is is the uh you know is the real life version of stark industries you know i mean he's uh this guy's got it going on and then i realized you know he's also got some quirks he's a little different i wonder if it's the case it seems to be that in order to be a technology startup founder you have to be a little cuckoo i was just reading an article about tim cook the current ceo of apple in one of the formal apple execs said it's kind of quiet and dull around here with tim it was so much more exciting when steve steve jobs was running the company yeah yeah because steve would fire you at the drop of a hat it was definitely exciting in the same way you know uh walking over a snake pit would be exciting uh but it seems to be a lot of these guys are kind of kind of wild kind of wild even jeff bezos and larry page of google and they're all kind of they you have to i think you have to be to think i me can change the world i'm going to change the world and uh and you can't stop me and uh even if people don't get it and think i'm crazy uh i'm gonna change the world steve had a great quote about changing the world actually that i i really liked he said it happened to him at some point as a kid he realized that the world around him wasn't created by people any smarter than he is and that in fact he could do anything he wanted oh there's the there's the giant leap isn't it he could he could invent anything he wanted do anything he wanted because the world the way it is is just constructed by other people he says life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you i'll tell you the secret i've met steve jobs i know a little bit about him he's not thinking no smarter than you he's thinking dumber than he is just between you and me he did you know he softened it up a little bit everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were dumber than you well no smarter than you and and this is the important thing you can change it you can influence it once you learn that you'll never be the same again and you know in medical textbooks they call that megalomania um but but you know i you kind of have to have a little bit of that to change the world i think and to say you know what i've got a better idea my idea is so good i'm going to move heaven and earth i don't care who gets in my way to make it happen elon musk perfect example it's just i as somebody who's on the sidelines watching this circus we call tech happen i just find this all quite interesting quite fascinating you\n"