Optimus Will Obliterate the Factory Floor Landscape
When you give an engineer, a designer, or an artist a new medium to work with, they will always surprise you and produce unforeseen results.
Just look at how Mobile Robots revolutionized the Amazon Warehouse.
Optimus is a new medium for factory designers.
At first it looks like a one-to-one swap out of labor.
But it is more. Much more. The factory space will be radically altered.
Optimus opens up a new possibilities frontier. Cells will be more compact. Processes will be eliminated.
Because the rules have changed.
No more cages. No more barriers. No more intermediate steps.
Just look at the Tesla Shanghai Speed video to see how crazy the status quo currently is. A human operator loads parts into a pre-feeder that feeds a robot that finally feeds the part to the robot production cell where the work is done.
It is a bucket brigade of hand-offs. Of middlemen. Of extra processes. Of extra resources. Lost cycle time. Lost floor space. Unnecessary hand-off fixtures. Complex end of arm tooling. Larger robot. It is inefficient. There is no value add in any of these extra steps or capital equipment.
The reason is safety. Operators are feeding Fanucs at the Robot Zoo. It is too dangerous for a human to enter a robotic workcell in operation.
But Optimus can. Optimus can do a choreography with the industrial robots, which will endanger neither it nor the industrial robots. It will direct feed the process. Because it can.
Dark Optimus will dispatch that problem.
Welcome to the new industrial canvas.