Washington Post: Musk is among a cohort of tech moguls that have seized on humanoid robots, which embody artificial intelligence in corporeal form, to massively transform labor-intensive work that cannot be performed solely by large language models.By applying the technology of the AI race to the physical world, they aim to unlock a new frontier of automation.
With the AI boom transforming office jobs at warp speed, tech moguls see a massive opportunity in replacing manual labor — upending fields that have so far been left untouched. Robot armies would be expensive to build and maintain, but unlike people, the devices would not take a salary. That has tech firms and their investors seeing dollar signs…