Just last night I watched the new Optimus robot dancing a jig on its two feet without support. Each arm can lift 20 Kg of weight.
Aging astronomers should hold onto your old too heavy long Newtonian and six inch plus refractors and your heavy GEM's. Not a problem. Just let your robot assemble all of that heavy stuff and Polar align your telescope for you. The video reported some will be sold publicly this year and next year production will be ramped up. The AI learns by watching what you do. It can thread a needle and cook. Let it lift and load a 40 lbs. salt bag for you into your car and out of it.
Price rumors are 20K to 30K and maybe less, because there is competition from overseas.
I suggest that as many amateurs as possible contact the Optimus people and ask them to see if they can train their robots on some AP and other popular mounts.
Big manual fans will come back into favor as during the evening your robot will quietly and gently wave the big fan to create a gentle breeze to blow away the mosquitos, cool you, and guard your equipment from theft.
The futurists of the present have got it all wrong. We are not living in the computer age, we are living in the petroleum age. The computer age is dawning now.
