Quote Originally Posted by dln View Post
Anybody that thinks the "robot" is anything more than a joke is living in an alternate reality.
Hmmm, didn't call it a joke. There were more pressing things to talk about to justify a mkt cap of a trillion, like a business not an R&D program when he got pressed on Tesla 2. Don't get me wrong, R&D is important, but so are other parts of a normally functioning business. All the elements need to come together. That is the point really. Many great ideas have died on the dance floor so to speak. Many companies, actually almost everyone(all maybe), that had a competitive advantage where they had the market to themselves, lost it. Most by thinking they had the market to themselves and failed to respond to competition.

I fly planes from time to time. We already have equipment that can be retrofitted into general aviation aircraft that will fly a complete approach or departure with buttons to push for autoland, autoglide, missed approach aka go-around or which will take over control if outside a performance envelop. That is that industry has been putting that technology in aircraft 50 years old. And you can do it for a fraction of the aircraft cost. Oh and there are multiple (not lots and lots as the industry never has had lots and lots) suppliers.

Aviation is already building AI into gear. Lots of companies are working on "robots" and have been for a long time.