The thought that androids wouldn’t be with us in the 2020s was *ludicrous*

It’s funny how people think stuff is nuts or hype. And instead it’s the naysaying that is.

Suddenly we have a dozen humanoid android companies. And their products are starting to work in Chinese factories.

I was seriously thinking androids as far back as the mid-1990s when I realized how good my cordless power tools were. Wow, those batteries could power a . . (better not say it aloud).

Sure, androids would’ve been pretty stilted back then without the neural net revolution. But still.

I was wondering for a good 4 or 5 years before Elon Musk announced the Optimus project:

When will Tesla start an android project?

Because they had all the ingredients. Battery. Drive train. Actuators. Visual AI. World class mech manufacturing efficiency.

And most of all: a hard-core sci-fi geek founder.

Because of investor bias against blue sky projects Elon almost had to apologise for starting the project.

And then I was wondering:

When are they going neural net end-to-end?

When will we see the bot deciding which parts to pick up in a demo? Directing its limbs via neural nets, not orchestration? Talking to us via an LLMs?

And then there’s the applications!

Endless.

With androids and human tools?

Anything becomes automatable with near zero hardware, software or programming development.

Androids are a no brainer.

As long as we work out how to spread the wealth (and avoid a bad Singularity), GDP will skyrocket wildly and humanity will prosper.

And sustainably, environmentally.