Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” • Hacker News Board

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by guardiangod » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 3:30 AM UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXz0KgNjK-0

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by dartharva » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 3:31 AM UTC

Why humanoid? That's such an inefficient and overcomplicated structure for a "menial job" home robot. This is either a PR stunt or a luxury product.

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by foobiekr » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 3:32 AM UTC

dartharva wrote: post #22

Why humanoid? That's such an inefficient and overcomplicated structure for a "menial job" home robot. This is either a PR stunt or a luxury product.

Or just a fraud like most of Musk's announcements.

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by pyinstallwoes » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 3:33 AM UTC

dartharva wrote: post #22

Why humanoid? That's such an inefficient and overcomplicated structure for a "menial job" home robot. This is either a PR stunt or a luxury product.

Really? How many businesses practices are codified using anything other than human-like movement? To expect anything else is the outlier. Any human doing any job in physical labor without specialized design for non-human machinery/robotics is on notice.

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by brikil » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 3:34 AM UTC

So the rich are getting robots now…

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by reilly3000 » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 3:36 AM UTC

This won’t be vaporware forever. Seeing the latest from Boston Dynamics makes that abundantly clear. The utility for general purpose robots is immense in difficult environments like the surface of Mars, where O2 wouldn’t be needed. I anticipate a small number of companies making the hardware, and a large, diverse workforce training, supervising, and maintaining android fleets for a variety of tasks. The legal system will have a lot of work to do, along with the general economy. It’s still far out, but not that far.

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by Fordec » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 3:36 AM UTC

Getting some real season 2 Westworld secret underground lab robot vibes of this. I think it's all the white.

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by sixQuarks » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 3:38 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #19

Add it to the long list of Elon projects permanently in a state of releasing "next year".

Sure, you can say that, but name another person with a more impressive track record of actual accomplishments.

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by qzw » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 3:41 AM UTC

camjohnson26 wrote: post #2

Reveals it with a person in a suit dancing to dubstep: https://twitter.com/TESLAcharts/status/1428540624203128837?s...

Fake it until you make it + Move fast and break dance = Tesla Bot (beta) release in 6 months

If it ends up murdering you in your sleep, well humans commit a lot more murders than robots, so it's still safer.

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by adabae » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 3:41 AM UTC

Tesla 201x -> LiDAR sucks. Humans don't use LiDAR to drive.

Tesla 202x -> Yo guys, look at this vector map we've created with 8 cams and a PS4. But forget about this, you know what ROBOT, LOOK AT THIS ROBOT NOT THE 7K YOU'VE SPENT ON FSD, LOOK AT THIS ROBOT IS FANTASTIC. LOOK HOW THE ROBOT DANCES. ROBOT.