My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade
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Re: My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade
#2Worth watching on 1.5x speed. Good thoughts and info on directions for future robotics.
Re: My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade
#3“servos are the local maxima for robotics“
“The future is tendon driven and evolutionary algorithms “
“passive dynamics”
Re: My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade
#4make passive dynamics great again!!!
Re: My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade
#5Not very surprising that a company with a lot of experience in building electric motors goes for servos.
Doesn't necessarily make it a right choice, though.
However, Tesla (usually) does the right thing after exhaustively trying all the wrong ones first. :-)
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Re: My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade
#7Human walking is just us falling forward and then subconsciously correcting it - research found that our footsteps are never the same and can vary by up to 80%.
It seems like a hard problem this human locomotion - almost like self driving cars.
Re: My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade
#8You realize both rocket and car manufacturing experts said the same type of things when Elon entered their fields. He can’t do this, can’t do that, should do this, should do that… etc
Let’s see how things progress 5 years from now
Re: My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade
#9You realize both rocket and car manufacturing experts said the same type of things when Elon entered their fields. He can’t do this, can’t do that, should do this, should do that… etc Let’s see how things progress 5 years from now
This seems to closer to hyperloop than to cars (and even there I wouldn't be that surprised if Cybertruck is not shipping in 5 years)
Re: My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade
#10You realize both rocket and car manufacturing experts said the same type of things when Elon entered their fields. He can’t do this, can’t do that, should do this, should do that… etc Let’s see how things progress 5 years from now
Yes. I remember how they said "he cant do self driving, people will die", and then he did self driving and people lost their heads. Plus the Lidar thing and plowing into huge obvious stationary objects.
Tesla robot moves like Asimo, very static "I have poop in my pants" walk. Little inverse kinematics, mostly looks like preprogrammed/pre learned moves that work only on known flat surface. Boston Dynamics Atlas it is not.