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SpaceX has lots of enemies — but this may be the most unexpected yet.

As Space.com reported, members of the American Association for Nude Recreation (AANR) — yes, that’s a real group — were among those protesting the Elon Musk-owned company’s proposed use of Kennedy Space Center on the Sunshine State’s so-called Space Coast.

Among the many potential impacts associated with bringing SpaceX to Florida — including hearing damage to local residents and flight delays across the state, per various opponents — is the repeat closure of Playalinda Beach, a remote location on the Canaveral National Seashore that’s one of Florida’s four main public beaches where nudity is legal.

Popular among the clothing-optional set, Playalinda could be closed up to 60 times per year due to Starship operations — and Deborah-Sue Stevens, a former regional director for the nudist organization’s Western branch, says those closures will harm many members of her community.

“[There are] probably a quarter million people that travel and think like I do,” Stevens said, calling into the Zoom meeting from California, “who look for destinations that are beautiful and surrounded by like-minded people.”

Erich Schuttauf, the executive director of AANR — which bills itself as the largest and longest-established nudist organization in the US with foundations dating back to 1931 — added that Playalinda closures might affect the non-nude community too.

As Schuttauf explained, nudists may end up traveling to nearby Volusia County, whose clothing-optional Apollo Beach, located further along the Canaveral shore, is also popular among those who like to sunbathe in their birthday suits.

Should Playalinda be removed as an option, Schuttauf warned, nudists may overtake Apollo and end up going over the clothing optional line, causing some decidedly Floridian conflicts between them and their clothed counterparts.

Not everyone was interested in preserving the nude beach’s current status, however. Max West, a random man quoted by Space.com who claimed during the Zoom call that he plans to move to the area to photograph Starship launches, essentially suggested that the nudists suck it up.

“The turtles and the nudists will have to migrate,” West said, presumably alluding to disputes over whether SpaceX’s rocket debris pose a hazard to endangered sea turtles . “That’s the cost that you have to pay for this incredible stuff that’s happening.”

Unfortunately, it looks like that wannabe SpaceX photographer may end up getting his way.

Although the FAA hasn’t yet completed its environmental review for SpaceX’s request to move to Florida, and has yet to determine whether Musk’s company can meet both its financial and safety requirements to operate at the Kennedy Space Center, construction of a Starship tower has nevertheless been underway for more than a year — giving the impression that approval is a foregone conclusion.

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📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: When You Read the Fine Print, Humanoid Robots Are Going Absolu

We tend to get fixated on realizing certain contraptions from science fiction, no matter how impractical. Flying cars. Jet packs. And now, humanoid robots.

It’s only the latter, however, that’s anticipated to one day be a multitrillion dollar market, with big firms like Tesla leading the charge. In March, Tesla CEO Elon Musk boasted that his automaker would build 5,000 Optimus robots by the end of this year. Responding to Musk’s claim, so did the Shanghai-based startup Agibot. Norwegian robot maker 1X announced it would be testing its robot in thousands of homes before 2026, too. And the AI robotics firm Figure plans to ship 100,000 humanoid robots in the next four years.

Yet few of these promised robots have actually been built. And there’re still huge existential questions looming over the industry, as outlined in a new writeup by IEEE Spectrum — and it’s not clear if some of these obstacles will be overcome in the near future.

Exemplifying the pie-in-the-sky thinking that’s dominating the space is that many are betting on advances in AI — another tech awash in outrageous promises and clouded by a murky future — magically resulting in all-purpose robots, according to Melonee Wise, former chief product officer at Agility Robotics.

“I think what a lot of people are hoping for is they’re going to AI their way out of this,” Wise told IEEE. “But the reality of the situation is that currently AI is not robust enough to meet the requirements of the market.”

That’s painfully apparent. In a video demo shared last week, Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff, accompanied by Musk, asks a Tesla Optimus bot for a Coke. But the bot takes an awkward number of seconds before responding, cuts out mid-sentence, and then stands unresponsively while Benioff repeatedly tells the robot to get going. When it does, it moves agonizingly slowly, loudly clunking along like an oversized RC toy.

Reminder: there’s supposed to be 5,000 of these ready to be shipped by the end of the year, with scant months to go. (Perhaps this is why Tesla has mostly relied on humans teleoperating its automatons whenever it’s tried to show them off.)

Another surprisingly pedestrian technological hurdle is battery life. Agility’s “Digit” robot, for example, can run for 90 minutes tops while taking 9 minutes to fully recharge. But only 30 minutes of that time is usable under normal circumstances, since the extra hour of charge is held in reserve for when work needs to be put on pause, which happens a lot on the factory floor — otherwise it might run out of battery mid-task, according to IEEE. Now imagine a factory floor with hundreds of these robots with heavy battery packs that need to be topped off every half-hour.

“No one wants to deal with that,” Wise said.

But maybe we’re putting the cart before of the horse here. Will factories even think swapping out their reliable and highly specialized machines — or human workers — with experimental automatons is worth the investment?

“The bigger problem is demand,” Wise told IEEE. “I don’t think anyone has found an application for humanoids that would require several thousand robots per facility,” she added.

Amazon is one of the biggest example of an industrial powerhouse embracing robot automation, with robots on track to outnumber humans at its vast warehouses — but its most successful ones are highly specialized units like robotic arms designed for loading and unloading boxes. Though the e-commerce giant is experimenting with humanoid machines, like Agility’s “Digit” bot, it’s nowhere near to deploying them at a large scale.

Even if manufacturers are willing to gamble, industrial applications for humanoid robots would have trouble getting off the ground, according to Wise, because they would fall under the already heavily regulated field of industrial machinery. That means the industry wouldn’t enjoy the same leeway that emerging tech like autonomous cars enjoyed, for example.

All told, while the field of humanoid robotics is generating loads of hype — and even glimpses here and there of sci-fi potential — it hasn’t shown that it’s anywhere near ready to becoming the juggernaut its investors are banking on.

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