Robotics concepts span Astra demos and household automation

Astra has been used for painting, with results reportedly improving over successive cycles, and a separate driving demonstration required the system to be told it was in a sandbox. A proposed home mail-processing robot would open mail, photograph it and route information to the appropriate recipient; one example was handling a parking ticket or utility bill. A broader vision is a humanoid robot maintaining specialized machines such as garage, window and pool cleaners.

Automakers have reportedly estimated that an average mass-market OEM may not reach the current Tesla level of full self-driving until 2040.