cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20907783
To absolutely nobody’s surprise
A mechanical Turk from a tyrannical jerk
(shamelessly stolen from mastodon)
Musk is a con man don’t fall for it.
At point I can’t but agree. I don’t give a shit about Tesla anymore. It doesn’t matter what “his” machines can do. His endgame is clearly a to have a complete controlled monopoly without any complications like “worker’s rights” to stop him.
Excellent way to get around labor laws. Have a robot controlled by a poor amuck in a low wage country and ignore the labor laws in the country of the robot.
I could actually see this being useful for dangerous working environments like steelworks or inside nuclear facilities. As long as the control system is on a separate intranet that’s properly air gapped.
You should still pay the operator their full wage though. The human still needs all of the technical knowledge to do the job, you’re just removing most of the physical risk.
The issue here is Tesla didn’t made the robot for that, but instead Melon Husk promised a personal robot butler that can do anything asked. If he came out on day one promised a remote controlled robot for hazardous situation or for warehouse work, like most robotic company are, he won’t get shit on this much.
I thought they were controlled by Elon.🤷♀️
