Simone Giertz Builds an Autonomous Charging Robot for Her Tesla
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#2Simone Giertz partners with Viam, a modern robotics platform founded by the co-founder and CTO of MongoDB, Eliot Horowitz, to build an autonomous charging robot for her custom Tesla truck.
(I work at Viam)
Re: Simone Giertz Builds an Autonomous Charging Robot for Her Tesla
#3Simone Giertz partners with Viam, a modern robotics platform founded by the co-founder and CTO of MongoDB, Eliot Horowitz, to build an autonomous charging robot for her custom Tesla truck. (I work at Viam)
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#4The way the charger calibrated itself to Tesla's charging port was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time
Re: Simone Giertz Builds an Autonomous Charging Robot for Her Tesla
#5Simone Giertz partners with Viam, a modern robotics platform founded by the co-founder and CTO of MongoDB, Eliot Horowitz, to build an autonomous charging robot for her custom Tesla truck. (I work at Viam)
Quick honest question: What benefit did Viam bring that isn't brought by ROS for this project?
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#6The way the charger calibrated itself to Tesla's charging port was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time
Right, it looked kind of...rapey :D
Re: Simone Giertz Builds an Autonomous Charging Robot for Her Tesla
#7Simone Giertz partners with Viam, a modern robotics platform founded by the co-founder and CTO of MongoDB, Eliot Horowitz, to build an autonomous charging robot for her custom Tesla truck. (I work at Viam)
Gonna be honest she rinsed you guys. Made a 10-min vlog that basically said nothing about your product and you guys had to do the whole thing.
Re: Simone Giertz Builds an Autonomous Charging Robot for Her Tesla
#8Honestly, I feel this rather highlights the engineering effectiveness of the original Tesla snake charger design. It's "just" a bunch of identical injection-molded spine pieces, and a bunch of identical winch actuators pulling on wires. Even the copper cable is much significantly shorter, which is a non-trivial cost and environmental impact if you plan to deploy millions worldwide.
The original Tesla video was dragged for being too sexual, so it's almost a relief to see that any implementation is going to be unnecessarily sexualized. It's just a lame joke that we're all going to have to "get past" as part of our cultural development.