Tesla robot Optimus is pretty good at folding shirts, his AI brain giving him human-like dexterity and ability not seen before.

NTEB has been writing about robots and transhumanism for well over a decade now, going all the back to when Google began buying companies like Boston Dynamics. And it was scary watching things come to life even way back then. But now here in 2024, and with the advent of AI, ChatGPT and all the rest, robots are becoming quite human. Such is the case of the shirt folding performed by Tesla robot Optimus that Elon Musk debuted earlier today.

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJB)

One thing you need to understand about robots and AI is the unprecedented rate at which they ‘learn’ and increase in ability. The curve is no longer figured in years, it’s counted in months. Just like the telephone was a wonder and a rarity in the early days of the 20th century, so are robots in our day. But mark my words, if the Lord tarries, you will be soon interacting with humanoid robots in many aspects of your daily life. Books like ‘Prince Of The Power Of The Air’ shows you where robots really come from.

Tesla Optimus robot can’t build cars yet, but it is folding clothes

FROM ELECTREK: When Optimus, also known as Tesla Bot, was first announced, it seemed to be a half-baked idea from CEO Elon Musk with a dancer disguised as a robot for visual aid. It also didn’t help that the demo at Tesla AI Day in 2022 was less than impressive.

Optimus folds a shirt, no big deal. Optimus takes your job, no big deal. Optimus arrives to administer the Mark of the Beast….well, you know the rest. @Tesla_Optimus @elonmusk #IDontWantToOverreactBUT pic.twitter.com/iOKy0mt0zh

— Now The End Begins (@NowTheEndBegins) January 15, 2024

At the time, Tesla had a very early prototype that didn’t look like much. It was barely able to walk around and wave at the crowd. That was about it. But the project has come a long way since then. I noted that the project was gaining credibility with the update at Tesla’s 2023 shareholders meeting last year.

At the time, Tesla showed several more prototypes that all looked more advanced and started to perform actually useful tasks. In September, we got another Optimus update. In that report, Tesla said that Optimus is now being trained with neural nets end-to-end, and it was able to perform new tasks, like sorting objects autonomously. Ultimately, Tesla sees people having this robot in their homes to perform a wide range of tasks, but first, the automaker plans to use them in its own manufacturing operations to perform repetitive and or dangerous tasks.

Tesla believes it is in a great position to create the first useful humanoid robot by leveraging its AI work on its self-driving vehicle program and expertise in batteries and electric motors. It argued that its vehicles are already robots on wheels. Now, it just needs to make them in humanoid forms to be able to replace humans in some tasks through training. READ MORE

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The lab features transparent pods that mimic a mother’s womb and grows babies inside The EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility

We all remember the movie ‘The Matrix’, and that scene where Neo is woken up from his slumber only to discover that he is functioning as a human battery in a pod, inside a massive facility filled with pods, providing electricity for the aliens who have taken over. Whew! Glad that was just a movie…hold my Bible…welcome to the EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility. This is where the movie ends, and the end times start.

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJB)

What are you looking at here? You are looking at the fast-growing and most highly-funder tech sector in the world today, biotechnology, what they referred to back in the 1970’s as transhumanism. The merging of man and machine is not just coming one day, it is already here with the majority of the planet right now functioning as hybrid cyborgs. Do you go anywhere without your mobile device? Nope, you sure don’t, and I don’t either. How about that iWatch or those Ray-Bay Smart Glasses, or any of a dozen other cyborg products we can’t seem to live without. ‘Hey Alexa, ask Siri to open the app on my iPhone that runs my smart TV, and get me directions for dinner’. Oh yeah, man, you’re already there.

The EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility and Birthing Pods Are Stunningly Like The Movie ‘The Matrix’

FROM THE DAILY MAIL UK: A birthing facility that can grow up to 30,000 babies a year inside artificial wombs could solve the world’s low birth rates, which Elon Musk believes is the most significant threat to human civilization. A new concept video takes viewers on tour through The EctoLife Artificial Womb Facility, where hundreds of fetuses sit in transparent pods that are temperature controlled and feature an umbilical cord to receive oxygen and nutrients.

Hashem Al-Ghaili, a film producer and biotechnologist, created the life-like film to start a conversation about such technologies that would allow women who had their uterus removed to give birth, reduce premature births and combat population declines

The process would use invitro fertilization, allowing parents to choose the ‘most viable and genetically superior embryo,’ which can also be genetically engineered to customize traits, including physical strength and eliminating inherited diseases.

While the video is a concept, Al-Ghaili said it is based on ’50 years of groundbreaking scientific research conducted by researchers worldwide,’ and such birthing pods could be widespread in ‘just decades’ from now. The video plays like a commercial for EctoLife, which ‘allows infertile couples to conceive a baby.’ The facility features 75 labs, each with up to 400 growth pods designed to replicate the real-life conditions of the mother’s womb and includes sensors that monitor the baby’s vitals. The delivery process requires parents to push a button on the pod. The amniotic fluid is drained from inside and the artificial womb opens, allowing parents to hold their baby for the first time.

The video, which looks like a scene from the 1999 film The Matrix, is just a concept for now, but it could be used in the future as the world is facing a population decline. READ MORE

EctoLife: The World’s First Artificial Womb Facility

The world’s first artificial womb facility, EctoLife, will be able to grow 30,000 babies a year. It’s based on over 50 years of groundbreaking scientific research conducted by researchers worldwide.

Compare EctoLife To The Matrix Movie

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Boston Dynamics is a cutting-edge robotics company that’s spent decades behind closed doors making robots that move in ways we’ve only seen in science fiction films.

In the early 200’s, there was a whole slew of dystopian robot movies like ‘I, Robot’, ‘The Matrix’, ‘Surrogates’, ‘A.I Artificial Intelligence’ and so many others. They were thrilling and terrifying at the same time, yet the realization of that technology was far, far into the future, right? Wrong. The vast majority of the things predicted in those movies have either already come to pass or in the process of. At Boston Dynamics, the future is yesterday.

“And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:13-15 (KJB)

In the early ‘blog days’ of NTEB, we did articles on robot technology, and it was amazing the level they had got it to by 2011, 2016, but here in 2021 these robots move with human-like mobility, with refined, complex movements and gestures in a way that is most unsettling when you first see it. When you add the AI components of Virtual and Augmented Reality to that, you see very quickly where all this is headed. But don’t worry, the folks at Boston Dynamics assure us that, even though they look just like the robots in those scary movies, they could never actually revolt and take over. Whew! What a relief. So glad they said that could never happen. (rolling my eyes).

Boston Dynamics: Inside the workshop where robots of the future are being built

FROM CBS NEWS: They occasionally release videos on YouTube of their life-like machines spinning, somersaulting or sprinting, which are greeted with fascination and fear. We’ve been trying, without any luck, to get into Boston Dynamics’ workshop for years, and a few weeks ago they finally agreed to let us in. After working out strict COVID protocols, we went to Massachusetts to see how they make robots do the unimaginable.

From the outside, Boston Dynamics headquarters looks pretty normal. Inside, however. it’s anything but. If Willy Wonka made robots, his workshop might look something like this. There are robots in corridors, offices and kennels. They trot and dance and whirl and the 200-or-so human roboticists, who build and often break them, barely bat an eye.

That is Atlas, the most human-looking robot they’ve ever made.

It’s nearly 5 feet tall, 175 pounds, and is programmed to run, leap and spin like an automated acrobat. Marc Raibert, the founder and chairman of Boston Dynamics doesn’t like to play favorites, but definitely has a soft spot for Atlas.

Marc Raibert: So here’s a little bit of a jump.

Anderson Cooper: I mean, that’s incredible. (LAUGH) 

Atlas isn’t doing all this on its own. Technician Bryan Hollingsworth is steering it with this remote control. But the robot’s software allows it to make other key decisions autonomously. 

Marc Raibert: So really the robot is

Anderson Cooper: That’s incredible–

Marc Raibert: You know, doing all its own balance, all its own control. Bryan’s just steering it, telling it what speed and direction. Its computers are– adjusting how the legs are placed and what forces it’s applying–

Marc Raibert: In order to keep it– balanced.

Atlas balances with the help of sensors, as well as a gyroscope and three on-board computers. It was definitely built to be pushed around.

Marc Raibert: Good, push it a little bit more. It’s just trying to keep its balance. Just like you will, if I push you. And you can push it in any direction, you can push it from the side. (LAUGH) 

Making machines that can stay upright on their own and move through the world with the ease of an animal or human has been an obsession of Marc Raiberts’ for 40 years.

Anderson Cooper: The space of time you’ve been working in is nothing compared to the time it’s taken for animals and humans to develop.

Marc Raibert: Some people look at me and say, “Oh, Raibert, you’ve been stuck on this problem for 40 years.” Animals are amazingly good, and people, at– at what they do. You know, we’re so agile. We’re so versatile. We really haven’t achieved what humans can do yet. But I think– I think we can.

Raibert isn’t making it easy for himself, he’s given most of his robots legs.

Anderson Cooper: Why focus on, on legs? I would think wheels would be easier.

Marc Raibert: Yeah, wheels and tracks are great if you have a prepared surface like a road or even a dirt road. But people and animals can go anywhere on earth– using their legs. And, so, that, you know, that was the inspiration.

Some of the first contraptions he built in the early 1980s bounced around on what looked like pogo sticks. They appeared in this documentary when Raibert was a pioneering professor of robotics and computer science at Carnegie Mellon. He founded Boston Dynamics in 1992, and with CEO Robert Playter has been working for decades to perfect how robots move. READ MORE

Robots of the future at Boston Dynamics