Tesla Bot can walk slowly and pick up stuff now

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/16/23726139/tesla-robot-update-video-shareholder-meeting

by mfiguiere • 3 years ago

18 52 3 years ago

I had long assumed the Tesla Bot was a joke or a gimmick or a lie. If Tesla ships a humanoid robot in the next few years I'm going to massively downgrade my own credibility with myself.

grecy3• 3 years ago

Obviously timelines are a massive miss, but I think you'd have to be a bit crazy to bet against anything Elon's big companies say they're going to do.

Outright best selling car in Europe in Q1 2023. (Model Y)

Best selling non-pickup in the US in Q1 2023. (Model Y)

Re-usable rockets that have completed 200 successful missions and the launch and landing are so common-place they're not even news.

1.5 million Starlink customers.

Starship progressing, integral part of the new moon landing plans.

They are consistently doing things that "experts" said couldn't be done.

kevviiinn2• 3 years ago

How about hyperloop, for example

recursv_thnkng2• 3 years ago

Best selling non-pickup in US is a pretty broad category. Do you mean the “high end luxury” segment or a more narrow EV segment? I have a hard time believing Tesla is outselling Toyota and Hyundai

JohnFen4• 3 years ago

Musk isn't magic or genius. He's had more failures than successes, like everyone else.

I can only think of two successes, Tesla and SpaceX (and I think I'm being generous by including SpaceX because it isn't a success yet)

quantified• 3 years ago

In previously established fields. Nothing net new, some really good increments. Self-driving: I'll bet against that for the next 3 years. Hyperloop? Ha, made you look!

imtringued2• 3 years ago

It's a gimmick. He hasn't built a single Mars or space related robot so far. I mean imagine building a humanoid robot that works with earth's gravity and then put it on Mars and have to struggle with balance again. He should have built a rover instead. The Artemis 3 mission is in two years there is hardly any time left for them to build anything they could test on the moon.

v0idzer0• 3 years ago

What does this have to do with Mars? These are built in Tesla factories on Earth

abudabi123• 3 years ago

Tesla ”Optimus“ Bot needs to catwalk the fashion house offerings on regular basis and compete in trade skill Olympics.

zozin• 3 years ago

Gait looks real bad compared to Boston Dynamics.

ChatGTP• 3 years ago

I'm a little confused what the use-case for these bots are?

It feels like it would be easier to built a bot to perform a specific set of tasks, rather than a human shaped robot?

local_crmdgeon• 3 years ago

I honestly think Elon just wanted a robot. I don't think there's much reason for this to exist, and I bet it'll get dropped when he finds something new.

tonyedgecombe• 3 years ago

Not only that but in a few years we will find out the videos have been faked just like the self driving stuff.

mgiannopoulos2• 3 years ago

Musk has said he wants to put them in Tesla factories first. The humanoid setup was chosen because working stations are designed for humans

throwawaymobule2• 3 years ago

Looking forward to robots like this becoming generic/open source, like what happened with 3d printers.

Tesla Bot can walk slowly and pick up stuff now

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