The director of 2004 sci-fi film I, Robot has accused billionaire Elon Musk of copying his designs for humanoid machines and self-driving vehicles.
Much as I hate this guy, guessing he didn’t design it and it wouldn’t be hard for a humanoid robot to end up looking pretty similar to an I-robot.
Be nice to keep attention to this ass out of the news unless it’s raising awareness to the real harm he is doing.
I don’t see the connection. The Elonbot is about as generic a humanoid robot design can be and the I, Robot one looks cool, has a face, and isn’t controlled by a human as part of some sort of investment con.
The self driving cars has no connection either. The Elonmobile looks like a smooth car and has a degree of autonomous driving and the I, Robot cars look cool, can drive up vertical surfaces, and hardly ever kills their occupants.
It’s because he called the event ‘We, Robot’. So it’s fairly obvious that he wants to draw parallels between Tesla’s humanoids and the robots within the movie.
That’s a problem though because the movie isn’t in a piece of original work. It’s based on the book by the same title by Isaac Asimov. I assume it’s out of copy right now not really sure.
Anyway the point is neither the movie nor anything Elon Musk may or may not have done is the original work and since the original work has been replicated many times it’s fairly obvious no one owns the copyright. Much like how no one owns the copyright to the tripods in war of the worlds anymore which is why there’s been so many adaptations over the years.
They look like humans, I don’t Think Irobot invented humans.
Humanoid robots look like other humanoid robots? This is a nothing burger.
Sure. But like take all of it together. Event was called “We, Robot”. Possibly influenced by the movie “I, Robot”? Maybe. Next the humanoid robot with white features. Ok fine. Humanoid shapes are humanoid! Not so controversial. Then the car. Gull wing doors! Inb4 delorean and lamborghini. Ok fine. But the capped wheels!? Ok fine its a car they look like cars. Finally the bus looking thing?? Thats weird, looks a lot like the I, Robot bus thing. Take all this together? HMMMMMMM
gulag for everybody who thinks this is news. The guy is literally a fascist and we are supposed to be angry about how his humanoid robots look kinda human? who tf cares
