At the Tesla AI Day recently, Tesla showed off two new products, including the Dojo supercomputer D1 chip and Tesla robot.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the humanoid robot is scheduled to launch a prototype next year and unveil it. The Dojo supercomputer is also expected to be put into operation in 2022.
It is understood that this Tesla robot is 1.72 meters tall and weighs 56.6 kilograms. It is equipped with a display screen on its face, which can display information or expressions.
It will be able to carry 45 pounds (20.4 kg) of weight, lift 150 pounds (68 kg) of weight, and walk/run up to 5 mph (8 km/h).
Foreign media Theverge said in an article that the leading global humanoid robot research and development company is Boston Dynamics, but even Boston Dynamics does not call its robot "research and development", and there is no concept of commercial deployment. Musk's attempt to surpass Boston Dynamics' decades of technological accumulation within a year is surprising.
It is worth mentioning that Carl Berry, a robotics engineer at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, even criticized it as "farting". It’s not that he shouldn’t do such research, but generally this is over-hype. "
After watching the robot, let's take a look at the D1 chip brought by Tesla's AI day this time.
It is understood that the D1 chip is designed for AI training, built with a 7-nanometer process, and has 362 Tops processing power.
In addition, these chips can be combined into a "matrix" - 25xD1 chip, which can further form a higher-level array, 120x "matrix". Specifically, it can provide more than five million floating-point operations per second.
