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I read the title 2-3 times, and every time I swore it said "Robot cat ears". Wtf.
I saw Robot ear cats and couldn’t make sense of it. But clicking in the article and seeing the title in huge whatever sizes fonts made it click.
I think it’s the small font sizes in HN causing our brains to ‘fill in the blanks’.
I read the title 2-3 times, and every time I swore it said "Robot cat ears". Wtf.
I read it multiple times, read your comment and clicked on the article and I still got it wrong. I saw Robot ear cats and couldn’t make sense of it. But clicking in the article and seeing the title in huge whatever sizes fonts made it click. I think it’s the small font sizes in HN causing our brains to ‘fill in the blanks’.
This article is written with a little bit of a journalist’s misunderstanding of a topic. They seem to have done research but have strung together unrelated subjects due to their lack of expertise in the subjects. As a result it reads more like a summary or recap of vaguely related stories. For example, Tesla’s pivot to robots has nothing to do with their advanced nature of their wiring harnesses, but it’s spoken in t…
“The question for your portfolio: who becomes the Corning, the Qualcomm, the TI of this stack?”
and it feels like a reading comprehension exercise, as the answer is right there in their article, even if they miss what the hard part about humanoid robotics is - hint, it’s not the actuators.
The answer is Nvidia. They’ve got the full stack, ready to license to everyone and anyone who wants to jump into autonomous vehicles or robotics - and as the article points out, they already are.
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Sorry, are all of those model 3 and Y vehicles robotaxis? Or are you saying that because they produced 1.5 million non-robotaxi cars in 2025 that the estimate of producing 1 million robotaxis in the following year is pretty reasonable, because making them autonomous taxis is a minor feature bump...?
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Then why is it spring-loaded?
> For the safety of any person being accidentally hit (the spring handles the retraction)
I read the title 2-3 times, and every time I swore it said "Robot cat ears". Wtf.
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Moreover, Technique X does not actually provide any significant value. The whole steer-by-wire in CT happened because Musk wanted a yoke as the control system. And a yoke requires progressive steering which is impractical without steer-by-wire.
Other models got the yoke but not the steer by wire.
Building robots at that scale without any indication that the market wants it is weird. I wouldn’t want to say atupid because with musk there is no rational thought. However this is not cars where the concept exists and we know people spend 100k towards a car. We don’t know if people will even spend on a robot that doesn’t do shit. Figure is looking at 100-150k robot if built at scale, so u less they revised this est…
> The Fremont factory lines that built those cars are converting to manufacture Optimus humanoid robots: one million units per year at $20,000 each, with public sales beginning in 2027. Sure, why not? Seems just as likely as Tesla having 1 million robotaxis on the road by the end of 2026. =)
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