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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is What We Expected
- sixQuarks 4y agoThat Evan Ackerman “journalist” is just an anti-Elon hack.
- floatinglotus 4y agoIt’s an Aibo. Elon build an Aibo.
- suitcaseman2 4y agoat least aibo is usefull
- bergenty 4y agoThey built that in a year. Most companies can’t even complete a basic software implementation in that time.
- thenthenthen 4y agoTethered to ‘something’ nonetheless
- theflyingelvis 4y agoI wish this con man would give me my ‘fully autonomous driving’ that I paid so much for three years ago rather than make useless ‘robots’. Sigh.
- dham 4y agoI mean you can do both and we'll probably have to solve general intelligence to have "fully" autonomous driving anyway. If you just want good adaptive cruise control (what most people actually want) then a lot of manufacturers have that. (GM Cruise, Autopilot, OpenPilot, Kia's ACC)
- GoToRO 4y agoMaybe the robot can drive your car around... (runs)
- ciconia 4y ago> '…This means a future of abundance, a future where there is no poverty, where you can have whatever you want in terms of products and services. It really is a fundamental transformation of civilization as we know it.' Good for you, Elon. Meanwhile, back on earth...
- bergenty 4y agoWhat does that even mean?
- sschueller 4y agoThe future could be now if you paid your employees a fair wage and didn't run apartheid assembly plants.
- rbanffy 4y ago“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed” ― William Gibson
- jakobnissen 4y agoAt some point, we've got to accept that Elon Musk is either lying, or delusionally optimistic when he talks about his future products. Whether he's talking about fully self-driving cars, mars expeditions, The Boring Company, Neuralink, Teslas cargo trucks, or now this robot, his promises have been wildly unrealistic. Whether it's lying or optimism, we should just stop paying attention to what he claims his companies can do, and instead take seriously what they actually do.
- noitpmeder 4y agoI think it's definitely a bit of both, which is why he's a fantastic marketer for his products. At this point it's basically defined who he is.
- mrandish 4y ago> "delusionally optimistic" Often, this is a necessary aspect of the entrepreneurial mindset. Necessary but not sufficient because the ability to curate ideas, organize resources, execute and deliver are also required.
- me_me_me 4y agooh yeah, I already forgot. We were promised first lunch to mars by the end of this year. I cannot wait for musk to surely deliver on time yet again \s
- ricardobeat 4y agoJust five years ago, a robot that operates on its own power and can pick up a box without losing balance was a technological marvel. Boston Dynamics does it, but notice it still uses industrial suction pads, not robotic hands, and as far as we’ve seen it doesn’t operate autonomously yet. For a project this young the Tesla Robot seems like an amazing achievement, but the goalposts are always shifting in the public eye.
- retrocryptid 4y agoI think asimo's been around for a while. Just demonstrates the market for overpriced humanoid robots wasn't especially big 10 years ago either.
- ricardobeat 4y agoAsimo never went beyond a tech demo. The few videos we have are either demonstrations, or in a lab setting (like James May's) where the robot is tethered. Its abilities were very basic, and it was never seen carrying a load other than a tray with paper cups. Comparisons to Boston Dynamics' robots would be a bit more relevant, at least in terms of agility and dexterity.
- retrocryptid 4y agoAh. I didn't realize Musk's robot was generally available.