9mo ago

The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise

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The robots were just a little too slick.

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9mo ago

The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise

www.theverge.com /2024/10/13/24269131/tesla-optimus-robots-human-controlled-cybercab-we-robot-event

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9mo ago

The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise

www.theverge.com /2024/10/13/24269131/tesla-optimus-robots-human-controlled-cybercab-we-robot-event

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9mo ago

The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise

www.theverge.com /2024/10/13/24269131/tesla-optimus-robots-human-controlled-cybercab-we-robot-event

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Wait isnt this the second time that elon has pulled this stunt? Dude must be desperate to do something so embarrassing lol
- Was the first time a: it was obviously a joke lol, or did he try to brush it off as a joke when there was backlash? Because i watched 5 seconds of it and it was clear that it was a dude under there.
A robot isn't just software: the hardware for humanoid robots has proved quite difficult to build and if these robots have the hardware necessary to walk around and manipulate objects (in the real world, not in a lab where they get multiple "takes") then they are remarkable even if their every action is directed by a human.
Also I would have guessed that Hasbro owned the IP for robots named "Optimus". Maybe Tesla paid them, the way that Verizon paid Lucasfilm for the right to use the word "droid".
- While it is impressive, it's impressive in a "college robotics classes were doing this six years ago" way. The control loop would be interesting with how the human gesticulation interacts with the locomotion algorithm they're using, but that assumes that the robots can walk and chew bubblegum (or in this case, walk and interact with a crowd via teleoperation) at the same time. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the robots were entirely software controlled when walking. That seems like the case from what I'm seeing in these vids.
  
  It has been a while since I went to college but I don't remember college robotics classes building robots capable of bipedal motion at all.
- With how much raw physical power machines display I think people really underestimate how impressive (and thus hard to replicate) biological systems are, the human body runs on about the same amount of total energy as a mid-range laptop. If I tried to build a working humanoid robot with the same power restriction it'd be so underpowered as to be less physically capable than a young child.
Nooo. You don't say. Space Karen's guy-in-a-suit shaped robots, acting like cliche fictional robots, were just guys in robot suits? Just like the previous blatantly-a-guy-in-a-suit "robot?" What are the odds!
Anyone who buys this shit without seeing Elmo walk up to one and take the head off is a mark.
- There's a fucking reason Boston Dynamics unveiled their all-electric humanoid like the monster in a horror movie. No human being could be inside that.
  Well. Maybe Tarman from Return Of The Living Dead. But nobody else!
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