Elon Musk, already the world's richest man, is now on the path to becoming its first trillionaire. Tesla's shareholders recently approved a massive pay package for the CEO, including some $1 trillion in stock options. But the payout will happen only if certain targets are met--including Musk's successful deployment of 1 million Optimus robots. Named after a character, because of course it is, Optimus is a humanoid machine that's supposed to be able to complete boring and dangerous work in place of humans. The robot was unveiled in 2021, when Tesla held an "AI Day" event detailing its future plans.

The unprecedented payday will go into full effect by 2035--as long as Tesla hits ambitious financial and production targets. On Thursday, Tesla shareholders approved an unprecedented $1 trillion pay package for CEO Elon Musk . The full compensation plan will go into effect by 2035--assuming the company successfully hits ambitious financial and production targets. If that happens, Musk will also get control of some 25 percent of the business, up from the 12 percent he controls currently. More than 75 percent of Tesla shareholders approved the move in a preliminary vote.

Tesla might be an electric auto maker, but CEO Elon Musk has made clear that he thinks of it as much more: an innovator in artificial intelligence and software, a builder of world-shaking robots. He's also argued that Tesla should be worth a lot more than it is today: up to $20 trillion, he posted in July, more than five times the current worth of Nvidia. Musk has also made it clear that he wants to get paid, a lot. In November, Tesla shareholders will vote on the board's proposal to pay the CEO a remarkable $1 trillion over the next decade . The deal would also increase Musk's stake in Tesla from 13 percent to a quarter.

Here's What You Need to Remember: Should the application of these synthetic materials come to fruition, they could help soldiers and combat units avoid detection from enemy sensors and satellites. Robot armies on attack, self-driving tanks and massive, long-range, computer-enabled sensors and natural camouflage technology are just a few of the many dynamics expected to characterize warfare in 2035, a set of circumstances now under close and careful examination by teams of Army scientists looking to anticipate the wars of tomorrow. "Our core focus areas include AI, robotics and autonomy underpinned by network and data technologies," Col. Stephanie Ahern, Secretary of the Army Initiatives Group Chief, told reporters on October 14. The effort, called "Team Ignite," is lodged within Army Futures Command. It is a collaborative endeavor involving scientists, engineers, academics, concepts experts, and weapons requirements writers to explore the realm of the possible in terms of research, emerging technologies, maneuver formations, and new tactics, techniques, and procedures.

When we get to a point where literally just about everything can be done more cheaply and more efficiently by robots, the elite won't have any use for the rest of us at all. For most of human history, the wealthy have needed the poor to do the work that is necessary to run their businesses and make them even wealthier. In this day and age we like to call ourselves "employees", but in reality we are their servants. Some of us may be more well paid than others, but the vast majority of us are expending our best years serving their enterprises so that we can pay the bills. Unfortunately, that paradigm is rapidly changing, and many of the jobs that humans are doing today will be done by robots in the not too distant future.

ELYAKIM ARMY BASE, ISRAEL – Israel, a world leader in hi-tech, is around 30 years away from its ambition of deploying robot forces, and for now will chose between three prototypes of semi-automated armored vehicles to cocoon its troops in battle, defense officials said on Sunday. Israel has long eyed a future robot army as a means of reducing the use of soldiers on its combustible fronts with Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, just as its air force has increasingly relied on pilot-less drones. The country draws most of its military personnel from teenage conscripts. An unveiling of Israel's newly developed operating suites for ground fighting vehicles made clear it plans to keep soldiers at the controls, albeit entirely insulated from the outside: Hatches battened, the cabins will have smart-screens, fed by outside cameras and sensors, instead of windows or ports. "Now the people will be sitting in the tank, it's closed, they are far better protected, and they can advance without worrying about snipers or other things," said Brig.

When Boston Dynamics shares a new robot video, my robophobia levels increase just a little bit. There is something about these robots that get into the uncanny valley for me. This particular video is both fascinating and disturbing. It's fascinating because here are a bunch of robots pulling a truck (not a pickup truck--a real truck). It's disturbing because it shows a BUNCH of robots.

The third major arms race in history is under way, ferocious and largely unnoticed by the public. As always, it has been sparked by a combination of human ingenuity, fear and aggression. The first arms race was triggered by the invention of gunpowder. And the third is driven by the race to develop armaments using artificial intelligence (AI), weapons that can think and fight for themselves, and change the character of war itself. Science fiction writers and television producers have done the world no favours by making "robot wars" seem fanciful and fantastic.

At the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in southwest England, dozens of tiny metal machines were poised to dance over a shiny white surface in "swarming" experiments to track how they organize themselves and work together. The scene at the European Union-funded facility this week mirrored what the continent is now trying to do to compete with the U.S. and China in artificial intelligence, or AI. The European Commission said it wants to create a network of hundreds of so-called Digital Innovation Hubs like the one in Bristol. The aim is to help Europe's companies and scientists work together to boost research and the take-up of new technologies among the thousands of small and medium-sized companies that form the backbone of the economy. "The idea is that all these nodes will connect and communicate with each other, maximizing the impact of the technologies and expertise they develop," said Farid Dailami, an associate professor who runs the prototype hub in Bristol, which connects researchers and funding with companies that need robotics.

According to the Sun, scientists at a high level South Korean university are developing an army of killer robots that could wipe out humanity. The university is called KAIST and they launched their robot weapons program in February. Science professors from around the world are calling for an end to this program already. A professor named Toby Walsh from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia has organized a boycott of the program that now includes 49 other researchers. Everyone wants the hottest new tech.