{"id":2667,"date":"2021-08-31T08:41:03","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/heres-why-elon-musks-robot-is-electrified-neoliberalism-van-badham\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T08:41:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T06:41:03","slug":"heres-why-elon-musks-robot-is-electrified-neoliberalism-van-badham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/heres-why-elon-musks-robot-is-electrified-neoliberalism-van-badham\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s why Elon Musk\u2019s robot is electrified neoliberalism | Van Badham"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is time to evaluate how much transformational control we give billionaires over our societies, and our lives<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, Elon Musk announced that his company, Tesla, plans to have a humanoid robot prototype<\/a> ready next year. The intention is to create a 56kg machine that isn\u2019t \u201csuper expensive\u201d to retail. Oh, yes: the commercial application of the planned robot is absolutely to replace human jobs \u2013 the ones that Musk himself finds \u201cboring\u201d. Like ones working in factories, and supermarkets.<\/p>\n

Some argued<\/a> the announcement was a troll. It wasn\u2019t just that Musk\u2019s speech was preceded by a dancer grooving to dubstep in costume as the robot, or that robotics companies with more skin in the long game than Tesla say the technology is nowhere near what Musk\u2019s proposing. It\u2019s that this convenient moment of dance theatre occurred amid a US federal investigation into Tesla self-driving cars after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIt is time to evaluate how much transformational control we give billionaires over our societies, and our lives
\nA few weeks ago, Elon Musk announced that his company, Tesla, plans to have a humanoid robot prototype ready next year. The intention is to create a 56kg machine that isn\u2019t \u201csuper expensive\u201d to retail. Oh, yes: the commercial application of the planned robot is absolutely to replace human jobs \u2013 the ones that Musk himself finds \u201cboring\u201d. Like ones working in factories, and supermarkets.
\nSome argued the announcement was a troll. It wasn\u2019t just that Musk\u2019s speech was preceded by a dancer grooving to dubstep in costume as the robot, or that robotics companies with more skin in the long game than Tesla say the technology is nowhere near what Musk\u2019s proposing. It\u2019s that this convenient moment of dance theatre occurred amid a US federal investigation into Tesla self-driving cars after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is time to evaluate how much transformational control we give billionaires over our societies, and our lives A few weeks ago, Elon Musk announced that his company, Tesla, plans to have a humanoid robot prototype ready next year. The intention is to create a 56kg machine that isn\u2019t \u201csuper expensive\u201d to retail. Oh, yes: …<\/p>\n

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