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Elon Musk goes full propaganda mode to distract from Tesla's delivery numbers

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Re: Elon Musk goes full propaganda mode to distract from Tesla's delivery numbers

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Post by alabastervlog »

We've been seeing human-form robots dancing and walking, even running and jumping, all kinds of stuff for how many years now? It's to the point that a video of a robot moving around on a mostly-empty concrete floor in a big industrial building is so boring that posting one as if it's impressive reads as parody, practically no matter what the robot is doing.

Are any of these companies delivering an actual product to paying customers yet? Is a single one making money on these kinds of things? I really don't know, but surely that would have made at least as big a splash in the news as all the videos of them doing choreographed dances or whatever for the last, god, what, almost 20 years (how long ago were those Japanese [Honda?] ones the Internet loved back in the day?) did?

Re: Elon Musk goes full propaganda mode to distract from Tesla's delivery numbers

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Post by danso »

I know that "DogeDesigner" is a Elon-stan account, but I hadn't compared Optimus's 2022 introduction vs its 2025 demo, and seeing it side-by-side is very...uh...underwhelming? And that's just walking — I assume if Optimius were able to attempt autonomous servicing of various factory tasks, we'd be seeing that footage in full.

[0] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1907331216623141305

Re: Elon Musk goes full propaganda mode to distract from Tesla's delivery numbers

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Post by Hatrix »

danso wrote: post #5

I know that "DogeDesigner" is a Elon-stan account, but I hadn't compared Optimus's 2022 introduction vs its 2025 demo, and seeing it side-by-side is very...uh...underwhelming? And that's just walking — I assume if Optimius were able to attempt autonomous servicing of various factory tasks, we'd be seeing that footage in full. [0] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1907331216623141305

Let's see it sit down in front of a computer and type really fast like Data on Star Trek.

Re: Elon Musk goes full propaganda mode to distract from Tesla's delivery numbers

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Post by ianburrell »

alabastervlog wrote: post #3

We've been seeing human-form robots dancing and walking, even running and jumping, all kinds of stuff for how many years now? It's to the point that a video of a robot moving around on a mostly-empty concrete floor in a big industrial building is so boring that posting one as if it's impressive reads as parody, practically no matter what the robot is doing. Are any of these companies delivering an actual product to p…

My thinking is that if movable robots were useful, then we would see centaur robots. Instead of spending effort making it walk on two legs, they could spend time making the arms work for useful tasks.

For factory tasks, which have flat floors, don't need legs but wheels would be fine. Most factory tasks would be fine with fixed robots that can be pushed around to stations.

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