This man is living every child’s dream. Imagine being a billionaire and thinking what you could do with all that money? Create a space travel company? Why not. Create a FAST electric car company? Why not. Boring company? Sounds boring but why not.
Some people may not like him for his behavior or marketing tactics but hey, they officially spend $0 on marketing. Glad to see this in my lifetime.
Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, you can say that, but name another person with a more impressive track record of actual accomplishments.
I can think of so many people who are radically more accomplished in vastly more interesting and important ways, it feels absurd to start listing because of how many I'd be leaving out by doing so.
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#73Lots of negative comments here. Can someone actually comment on whether this is even remotely possible today? Or is this more than a decade away?
you can look at the latest boston dynamics demos to see what the cutting edge in humanoid robots is. This form factor, with a working prototype, shown in the next year is absurd.
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#74Musk seems to have fallen for the idea that since he's had great success in one or two areas, he can easily repeat that success in other areas, even if the difficulty is much higher and entirely different skills are required. SpaceX and Tesla are great achievements, but they are primarily stories of successfully implementing and improving existing technologies with innovative engineering and business practices (like…
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#75It is interesting that many of the top comments are as dismissive as: “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame,” When you look at Tesla’s talent in: AI + motors + batteries + manufacturing I can’t believe how negative and dismissive the comments are. Can we not have some appreciation for what Tesla HAS achieved vs only focusing on missed ship dates? The part that I think is going over peoples head is that for so m…
If my robot folds my laundry correctly for 99 days and on the 100th day shreds my wardrobe, I don't think that will print money (at least not for very long).
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#76This 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…
Would you say this will come out before or after level 5 autonomous vehicles?
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#77Lots of negative comments here. Can someone actually comment on whether this is even remotely possible today? Or is this more than a decade away?
Boston Dynamics is one example, but there are loads of examples in manufacturing where the conditions are very tough for people to work on certain types of labor. This is to the point where at times you may have seen references to exoskelatons or specialized equipment to help with repetitive tasks during welding/bolting in a manufacture line that a large robotic arm can't do. A humanoid on the other hand...
Re: Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, you can say that, but name another person with a more impressive track record of actual accomplishments.
I can think of so many people who are radically more accomplished in vastly more interesting and important ways, it feels absurd to start listing because of how many I'd be leaving out by doing so.
Even naming a few would actually help your argument, since you can think of so many
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#79Can it drive?
More importantly can it give a good blowjob? Sex is going to be the predominant task of humanoid robots. There's no other reason for them to look human; other form factors would be more efficient for most tasks.
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#80Musk seems to have fallen for the idea that since he's had great success in one or two areas, he can easily repeat that success in other areas, even if the difficulty is much higher and entirely different skills are required. SpaceX and Tesla are great achievements, but they are primarily stories of successfully implementing and improving existing technologies with innovative engineering and business practices (like…
I feel people said the same thing about him for SpaceX and Tesla back when he was just the wacky PayPal guy. Remember SpaceX's first launch was in 2006 (before the iPhone existed!) and it's only started getting really serious traction in the past 5 years. Elon's no stranger to things that don't have any "useful form" for well over a decade. I'm quite certain he's aware of the realistic timelines, and he sells a different story in the press for the sake of fundraising and PR.
I think he's really got figured it out tbh - as long as he expects the technology to exist at some point, the fact that he's parked a big chunk of cash in the idea gives him an advantage. It's like he's reserved a spot for his company to exist when the tech exists. His team doesn't necessarily have to be the one actually making breakthrough innovations in order to be in a good position to reap the advantages of said innovations.