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Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by rlt »

sagondis wrote: post #374
modeless wrote: post #148

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You're blaming Tesla because you didn't use the front license plate holder that they give you, ready to go?

why did they put it in the trunk when all other car dealers fix it and give ? And why do you see 80% of Tesla'a on the road without the front number plates ? Also if you put the number plate it may not reach their advertised 0-100 mile in 3.x seconds ?

I’m happy they left it up to the customer to put the front plate on. It makes the car look worse and I’ll accept the risk of a citation.

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by rlt »

joakleaf wrote: post #208

If Musk was really serious about this, he would start with smaller steps: 0) Finish the tentacle charging robot they demoed in 2015 (roll out to superchargers) 1) Build delivery robot on wheels using FSD (like the Starship Technology's robots). These could be used on hospitals, possibly warehouses, pizza delivery, cleaning streets, painting lanes on roads, ... 2) Build dog-like robot, like Boston Dynamics's spot with…

“to attract new talent”

I think it’s primarily this, and it’s not a bad strategy.

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by rlt »

bmitc wrote: post #132
camjohnson26 wrote: post #2

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

I said this in another comment, but how do they get away with it? People are in this very thread making serious comments like Tesla has even a thread of a chance of actually doing this… I’d love it if Boston Dynamics recreates this dance with Atlas.

> I said this in another comment, but how do they get away with it?

Because it was a joke and most people have a sense of humor?

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by rlt »

gamegoblin wrote: post #90
iab wrote: post #48

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General purpose field robots like this are further away than level 5 driving, by a long margin

I think they could see use in cities for delivery or patrol type jobs. The stakes are so much lower for a 50kg robot moving at walking pace compared to a car. Consider a pizza delivery operation. You could imagine having dozens of robots delivering pizzas, and even if you had to have one or two humans driving around town getting robots out of stuck edge cases when they happened, it could still be a net gain. Consider…

> Consider that Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog is already operating on industrial sites today.

In fact, SpaceX has one in Boxa Chica.

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-robot-dog-wreckage-ex...

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by rlt »

andyxor wrote: post #195
klintcho wrote: post #127

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It's quite interesting how people keep betting against Elon. The HN crowd should consist of mostly risk-tolerant personalities, but the majority of comments are negative. Regardless of what one might think of the feasibility, no other company in the world today are as ambitions as SpaceX and Tesla (+ Neuralink). Feels like what Apple used to be during the "one more thing"-era. Both Tesla and SpaceX has been discounte…

Not to take away from their brilliant engineering accomplishments, but SpaceX and Tesla were dealing with technically solved problems. We (as a species) have been to space, and we know how to build electric batteries and cars. These were at the advanced engineering stage after enormous scientific progress of the last few hundred years and going all the way back to beginning of physics and math. With AI we are at pre-…

We knew how to land rockets?

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by rlt »

tenpies wrote: post #203
sixQuarks wrote: post #28

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

Jeff Bezos. I'll put it to you another way: if Tesla vanished tomorrow, life wouldn't really change. There may be a few brownouts in a corner of the planet as Tesla batteries vanish and power generators kick in, but life would largely be the same. EV adoption would continue sans Tesla just fine. Self-driving would probably even improve because there wouldn't be the risk of one greedy company, guinea-pigging people an…

Jeff who?

Oh the guy who has poured billions of dollars into Blue Origin over 20+ years with little to show for it aside from failed legal attempts / overturned patents to attempt to hinder SpaceX, and a penis shaped sub-orbital rocket?

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by yreg »

tinco wrote: post #252
mciancia wrote: post #242

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Why? I mean, what are current problems with making this work? Hardware/mechanical part? Software? Energy source? All of those? I would assume it's software, same as with level5 self driving (?)

No, robotics is not a software problem. If it was then it would actually be feasible. All it has to do to be useful is walk around without bumping into things, Boston dynamics already has the software for that.

What problems does Boston Dynamics have?

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Post by panick21 »

HWR_14 wrote: post #376
panick21 wrote: post #372

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> SolarCity SolarCity was not Musk lead company, he was just an investor. SolarCity was acquired and is part of Tesla and while they had to remove resources from Solar during the manufacturing difficulty and scaling difficulty the solar and home energy part of their business is still growing very well. I think its fair to say that going into solar was not as successful as Tesla hoped, but neither is it a failure. In…

That's my point. You talked about companies that are 15, 5, and 5 years old as "not announcing a timeline they failed to hit" when I claimed they had produced nothing so far. Which, one, is a crazy standard to volunteer with Musk as he regularly fails to hit timelines he announces. But my point was he invests in things for years - decades - without any public progress but also without pulling out investment. The "hea…

> The Hyperloop, is something Musk spent over a calendar year and numerous engineering assets working on before he decided to give up and open-source their work. If any of his projects was an unreserved failure, it was the hyperloop.

Can you provide me with a source on that? During that time he was full time for Tesla and SpaceX and they were very busy during that time with other projects. So I can't see how this much engineering was put into it.

Also, not doing a project is not the same as failing at doing something.

The result of the investigation was clearly, I think its a good idea but I have no time to do it. Maybe somebody else will.

I think he still hopes to eventually put a Hyperloop type system into a boring tunnel, but he thinks shorter range solution are more important and tunneling technology needs to improve to make it viable.

> SolarCity

I agree it could have been a failure, but also don't know that for sure.

> I don't get why you're so upset about this. I didn't say Musk was horrible. I just pointed out a lot of his projects tend to fail.

I am not upset, I just pointed out for the most part his projects do not fail. You pointed to one project they didn't actually do more then a initial technical evaluation on. And on project that could have failed, but actually didn't.

I think objectively if any person said 'I'm gone do X project' (that was considered incredibly difficult), I can't think of many that would have more credibility then Musk (ie Tesla, SpaceX or a new company).

A humanoid robot is a risky project for sure and it does not seem to be the same level of importance as batteries or reusable rockets, so maybe they will abandoned it at some point.

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Post by tessierashpool »

panick21 wrote: post #367
tessierashpool wrote: post #219

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Musk isn’t actually looking for profitable products. He’s trying to be the king of vaporware. Remember the Cybertruck? Or how he said he could control pigs by putting microchips in their brains? Or how Tesla was all in on Bitcoin until it wasn’t? He probably doesn’t even do it to bump the stock price. It’s probably just about doing whatever will impress Grimes for a little while. Then they both smoke so much weed the…

This is just such nonsense, sometimes I question if people ever actually adsorb information or just form lose association and then form an opinion based on how much they like the person involved. > Remember the Cybertruck? Cybertruck is literally not vapoware. It was never even supposed to come out before the end of this year. Technically they are not even late yet. Now they have pushed it back into 2022 but that is…

Teslas catch fire. Some catch fire while parked. Some catch fire while driving around residential neighborhoods on autopilot with nobody inside. They're garbage cars. And they're not profitable. The company's profit comes from carbon credits. They're basically a subsidy laundering system for all the other manufacturers whose cars are actually profitable.

And I notice you gave me a 6,000-word rant in response to my post, yet you dropped that whole Bitcoin thing as if I hadn't even said it.

Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”

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Post by iab »

cryptoz wrote: post #153
mrjangles wrote: post #146

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I like Musk, and I've been following his progress since 2011. I always thought he seemed very intelligent and seemed to really understand what he was doing. However I have to agree with the person you are replying to. There has been the sort of myth going around that making rockets is hard. It used to be hard... 50 years ago. That is literally the technology Musk has been using for the last 20 years: 50 year old tech…

I'm no Musk fan but this > If he had never pursued reusability he would have made far, far more money from his launch business. Strikes me as short term thinking and not true, also. The plan is to sell tickets at $400,000 each to get to Mars. There doesn't seem to be any way to achieve that without reusability. The money to be made from founding the first Mars colony supplied with reusable rockets completely dwarfs s…

What it is intended to be, and what it will be, will differ greatly. 1M people living on Mars is utter fiction.
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