It has been a year since Musk showed off a prototype robot on stage. He is teasing that we will get to see one of his many, many promises at tonight'sTesla Artificial Intelligence Day. We will see enough of the robot for him to recruit talent that can translate his big brain goals into reality. The event is bound to be filled with either excitement or schadenfreude. How do you pay attention to it? The CEO of the company wants the event to be more of an industry event than a commercial. It has been coy about how to watch it remotely. The company finally uploaded a stream to its website this morning. Doors will open in Palo Alto at 5PM and stay open until 11PM, according to a ticket spotted by Digital Trends and posted to social media. Don't be surprised if the stream runs into three hours.How to watch Tesla AI Day
The imagery for the event has all focused on the hands of theTeslaBot, with theTesla account posting a picture of the robot with its fingers in a heart shape.
We might learn more about the company's intentions for the robot and even see a prototype. This is an actual one.
We could see renders and specifications given that Musk is hedging that it is arecruitment event. That is what guerilla marketing is all about, especially from a man who trotted out a modern day Mechanical Turk at last year's Artificial Intelligence Day and plans for a 1950s drive-in movie theater. It is hard to get hard data until you see it in person.
The company's upcoming Cybertruck would be waterproof enough to serve briefly as a boat according to Musk. Even in the sea. When the truck's supposedly almost bulletproof windows got shattered live onstage when confronted with a couple of lightly tossed steel balls, it was the last time we saw his Cybertruck promises fall flat. It is possible that we will see a demo tonight. Put the Cybertruck in a body of water.
Last week, Musk posted that his self-driving car team has an end-of-month deadline for summon/ auto park, so people are expecting the event to go into self. Federal investigators are looking into the autopilot feature ofTesla.
We will be following the event tonight and will check back on Gizmodo later in the evening to see if theTeslaBot is more than a costume. The bot is designed to eliminate dangerous, boring, and repetitive tasks, so maybe one day it will be able to watch these streams.
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