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Think about this. Think about where we got, as a people. This is out of this world. I don't want to get into if you like it or not or think it's good or not, no

Think about this. Think about where we got, as a people. This is out of this world. I don't want to get into if you like it or not or think it's good or not, no. Anyway you feel about Tesla, Musk, mass production, automation, whatever, just stop for a moment and think how the heck did we get here? I was amazed. I know some folks are used to these kinds of environments, but me? It looks straight from a 80s or 90s big sci-fi movie. It's mesmerizing.

amelius 5y ago
Still, there is no robot that can take a LEGO instruction booklet, a pile of bricks, and build the actual model.
- throwra620 5y ago
- SteveNuts 5y ago
  Is that because the instructions are meant for human consumption or because of a shortcoming in the robots themselves
  - dymk 5y ago
    The robot itself. One could build a gripper meant specifically for LEGO pieces, but a general grasper like the human hand is still out of reach (ha) of robotic design (for now).
- bombcar 5y ago
  I believe the hard part would be the reading of the booklet - operation robots or similar should be able to build with LEGO given that simple LEGO robots can build simple LEGO sets.
- drooby 5y ago
  This is pretty cool though https://nerdist.com/article/brickit-app-scans-lego-builds/ https://nerdist.com/article/brickit-app-scans-lego-builds/
- agumonkey 5y ago
  you just provided ML/AI next toy challenge
- munk-a 5y ago
  I mean - that's definitely a specialized robot we've not yet built, but I think all the components exist to do it if someone actually bothered to put it together. Scanning a lego instruction booklet to assemble a 3D model of the desired outcome seems extremely reasonable - and assembling legos is clearly within the realm of possibility. Now, we don't have a general AI that you could just hand a pile of legos and a booklet to and we almost certainly won't have one of those for a number of years - but that task isn't out of the realm of reason for a specialized solution.
  - amelius 5y ago
    I'm not so sure about that because meanwhile, Amazon is struggling to build a robot that can pick and place orders, and so they still have many humans in the loop.
    - bombcar 5y ago
      Given that a LEGO sorting robot exists the hard part is done on that front. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-lego-sorter/ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-lego-sorter/
- spaetzleesser 5y ago
  Or a robot that can separate recyclables.
heavyset_go 5y ago
It's Tesla's shareholders that got there, we, as a people, didn't.
- sneak 5y ago
  Leave money out of it for a moment and recognize that this is a monumental step toward cessation of use of fossil fuels by humankind. I cheer for ITER with the same fervor. Nobody else gave a shit about EVs until Tesla did it on a large scale. I don't own a single share of TSLA or one of their vehicles (yet) and I am happy for this and will benefit from it, because I am a human living on Earth. Don't be a hater.
  - pedrogpimenta 5y ago
    It's not even that. It's the fact that something like this exists, has been invented, all of it.
  - heavyset_go 5y ago
    This has nothing to do with the claim that we, as a people, got somewhere with this factory, when it is the shareholders that own and control the IP that made it possible, along with the physical machinery. It's not a public service that we, as a people, are responsible for in that sense.
- JaimeThompson 5y ago
  One needs to give the governments that gave incentives, subsidies, and related such things to Tesla a bit of credit too.
- rootusrootus 5y ago
  I think that's being a little unfair. Tesla's factory isn't particularly special, it's like every other car plant out there. They're building on centuries of industrial development. Heck, the biggest 'cool toy' in the Tesla factory is made by an Italian company. So 'we' did get to this level if industrial capability.
  - 5y ago
stefan_ 5y ago
It's nice, now if only we could get to the "have machines do our work" part instead of the "make rich people richer" thing.
- collias 5y ago
  Those two things are not mutually exclusive, and likely go hand-in-hand.
jbay808 5y ago
Compare with 1936 Chevrolet factory, itself a feat of industrial automation: https://youtu.be/8bT6txm4RpA https://youtu.be/8bT6txm4RpA
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amelius 5y ago

Still, there is no robot that can take a LEGO instruction booklet, a pile of bricks, and build the actual model.

throwra620 5y ago
SteveNuts 5y ago
Is that because the instructions are meant for human consumption or because of a shortcoming in the robots themselves
- dymk 5y ago
  The robot itself. One could build a gripper meant specifically for LEGO pieces, but a general grasper like the human hand is still out of reach (ha) of robotic design (for now).
bombcar 5y ago
I believe the hard part would be the reading of the booklet - operation robots or similar should be able to build with LEGO given that simple LEGO robots can build simple LEGO sets.
drooby 5y ago
This is pretty cool though https://nerdist.com/article/brickit-app-scans-lego-builds/ https://nerdist.com/article/brickit-app-scans-lego-builds/
agumonkey 5y ago
you just provided ML/AI next toy challenge
munk-a 5y ago
I mean - that's definitely a specialized robot we've not yet built, but I think all the components exist to do it if someone actually bothered to put it together. Scanning a lego instruction booklet to assemble a 3D model of the desired outcome seems extremely reasonable - and assembling legos is clearly within the realm of possibility. Now, we don't have a general AI that you could just hand a pile of legos and a booklet to and we almost certainly won't have one of those for a number of years - but that task isn't out of the realm of reason for a specialized solution.
- amelius 5y ago
  I'm not so sure about that because meanwhile, Amazon is struggling to build a robot that can pick and place orders, and so they still have many humans in the loop.
  - bombcar 5y ago
    Given that a LEGO sorting robot exists the hard part is done on that front. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-lego-sorter/ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-lego-sorter/
spaetzleesser 5y ago
Or a robot that can separate recyclables.

heavyset_go 5y ago

It's Tesla's shareholders that got there, we, as a people, didn't.

sneak 5y ago
Leave money out of it for a moment and recognize that this is a monumental step toward cessation of use of fossil fuels by humankind. I cheer for ITER with the same fervor. Nobody else gave a shit about EVs until Tesla did it on a large scale. I don't own a single share of TSLA or one of their vehicles (yet) and I am happy for this and will benefit from it, because I am a human living on Earth. Don't be a hater.
- pedrogpimenta 5y ago
  It's not even that. It's the fact that something like this exists, has been invented, all of it.
- heavyset_go 5y ago
  This has nothing to do with the claim that we, as a people, got somewhere with this factory, when it is the shareholders that own and control the IP that made it possible, along with the physical machinery. It's not a public service that we, as a people, are responsible for in that sense.
JaimeThompson 5y ago
One needs to give the governments that gave incentives, subsidies, and related such things to Tesla a bit of credit too.
rootusrootus 5y ago
I think that's being a little unfair. Tesla's factory isn't particularly special, it's like every other car plant out there. They're building on centuries of industrial development. Heck, the biggest 'cool toy' in the Tesla factory is made by an Italian company. So 'we' did get to this level if industrial capability.
- 5y ago

stefan_ 5y ago

It's nice, now if only we could get to the "have machines do our work" part instead of the "make rich people richer" thing.

collias 5y ago
Those two things are not mutually exclusive, and likely go hand-in-hand.

jbay808 5y ago

Compare with 1936 Chevrolet factory, itself a feat of industrial automation: https://youtu.be/8bT6txm4RpA https://youtu.be/8bT6txm4RpA

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