Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any specifics

Tesla also disbanded the team building its “Dojo” supercomputer several weeks ago. Much touted by Musk in the past as the key to beating autonomous vehicle developers like Waymo (which has already deployed commercially in several cities), Tesla will no longer rely on this in-house resource and instead rely on external companies, according to Bloomberg.

“Shortages in resources can be remedied by improved technology, greater innovation and new ideas,” the plan continues.

Then plan veers into corporate buzzwords, with statements like “[o]ur desire to push beyond what is considered achievable will foster the growth needed for truly sustainable abundance.”

In keeping with Musk’s recent robot obsession, there’s very little mention of Tesla electric vehicles other than a brief mention of autonomous vehicles, but there is quite a lot of text devoted to the company’s humanoid robot. “Jobs and tasks that are particularly monotonous or dangerous can now be accomplished by other means,” it states, blithely eliding the fact that it makes very little sense to compromise an industrial robot with a bipedal humanoid body, as evinced by the non-humanoid form factors of just about every industrial robot working today. Robot arms mounted to the floor don’t need to worry about balance, nor do quadraped robots with wheels.