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[EverydayBeast]

Robots debuted with automation in factories, vacuums etc, 2020s with self driving cars and their climbing the mountain to human robots with software adjustments. Robots could protect your home and than there’s Terminator

 

[Wheeljack539]

 

[IntentionalPun]

It comes off like such a pipe dream. This is the stuff Isaac Asimov wrote about his entire life. Everything from iRobot to Robbie.

Tesla nailed the reveal. I’m sure someone watches those bipedal droids on YouTube and hopefully it’ll trend across social media. To me, this should be a sign that we are almost there.

Who will sell an android in our lifetime? Elon Musk wants to sell us an electric vehicle and an android maid in the years to come. Again, this could just be a pipe dream.

I agree on the first part but not the second part. I don't find it very convincing or a great presentation. It's some robots shuffling around slowly doing really basic stuff. Even what they are showing is sus, especially stuff like "oh that's so cool the robot stopped to give a peace sign and take a selfie!" It feels like parlor tricks, and it's all just a marketing event to try to prop up the stock price, and it's not working (down 8% the last day, 12 total the last 5 days.)

There's a lot of funding and great engineers at Tesla but I just can't take anything Musk says seriously either way. $30k and by 2027? Give me a break lol

Robotics is a crazy field that has been developing for decades, and "robots" have been making products for ages.. but not bi-pedal ones.. a lot of money is being spent, and I think it's cool and all they try, but this stuff is all for industrial and maybe some military uses IMO outside of some sort of novelty use.. (and the vast majority of those uses are not bi-pedal sci-fi robots walking around acting like humans)

 

[Toons]

This is going to be disastrous in some way.

Advanced tech is nice, but absolutely everything we've seen over the past 3 to 4 decades has shown us that we completely lack a foundational ethical framework for this not to be used for the worst possible things by the worst possible people.

 

[CGNoire]

Love the art-deco vibes. Amazing.

Yes the Robovan looks Fantastic.

 

[Mobilemofo]

Can it shake a bottle of pop vigorously? Asking for a needy friend..

 

[EviLore]

I agree on the first part but not the second part. I don't find it very convincing or a great presentation. It's some robots shuffling around slowly doing really basic stuff. Even what they are showing is sus, especially stuff like "oh that's so cool the robot stopped to give a peace sign and take a selfie!" It feels like parlor tricks, and it's all just a marketing event to try to prop up the stock price, and it's not working (down 8% the last day, 12 total the last 5 days.)

There's a lot of funding and great engineers at Tesla but I just can't take anything Musk says seriously either way. $30k and by 2027? Give me a break lol

Robotics is a crazy field that has been developing for decades, and "robots" have been making products for ages.. but not bi-pedal ones.. a lot of money is being spent, and I think it's cool and all they try, but this stuff is all for industrial and maybe some military uses IMO outside of some sort of novelty use.. (and the vast majority of those uses are not bi-pedal sci-fi robots walking around acting like humans)

Yes, more or less. Robotics is a non-trivial field, even with machine learning advances in recent times. There's crossover between FSD tech and a robot navigating an interior room but the real challenges go far beyond that since cars don't have to interact precisely and delicately with other 3d objects in a confined space, maintain balance while performing actions, understand the nature of objects and materials at 99.99% accuracy, etc. Cars mainly just need to stay within lines and avoid collision. And FSD is years past-due with empty promises after each delay to string people along.

Robots that can be preprogrammed to perform a dance, or remotely operated to perform basic tasks, are decades old. Elon's providing a vision of the future but no new problems have been solved yet. The pricing and timetables are also a pipe dream.

 

[LimanimaPT]

I just want to see them with guns.

 

[Lambogenie]

This is quite impressive. Think positive, but also needs guard rails and safety in place.

 

[ThisIsMyDog]

 

[Hookshot]

Love the art-deco vibes. Amazing.

These look so much better than the ugly truck.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Cost wise may not be that insane, given Tesla's driving of their car parts down from some 30,000 parts and to 12,000. Robotics is likely the same.

 

[sankt-Antonio]

Finally his snake oil fever dreams aren’t successful stock pump events.

None of this will materialize as shown ever.

 

[ResilientBanana]

I can't wait to buy a 30k robot to water my plants

What price was everyone expecting? This is super reasonable. I totally expected they would cost as much as a car.

 

[Blade2.0]

Cool, so now unskilled workers cannot even get factory jobs. Since they are unskilled they can’t get higher paying jobs. I guess they can just die or work in McDonald’s (till they release a robot for the food industry).

That's why we need a ubi. If automation happens on a scale like this, people just won't need to work.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

CEO's want to lull you into a trance, sedate you, and put you to sleep so that you buy their product and keep buying their product. Even if the design is shit, you will like it.

Fight the future.

 

[ReBurn]

Now is the time to become a corpo

 

[Krathoon]

I get the impression that Elon Musk is so full of it. His ideas are dumb.

The only good idea is making outer space more accessible.

 

[Hari Seldon]

This seems pretty awesome. Could unlock some automation possibilities for small businesses, like restocking shelves or nighttime monitoring of things. Probably not really a consumer product yet, but if it actually worked 30k is not a bad price for a live in robot slave.

 

[Krathoon]

I worry some day we will have automated fast food restaraunts. Probably find a bug in your burger.

 

[daffyduck]

I just want to see them with guns.

 

[Sophist]

It reminded me the Sony dog from 1999. People were saying it will be a revolution but the hype quickly faded out.

I worry some day we will have automated fast food restaraunts. Probably find a bug in your burger.

There is a robotic pizza in France, you order on a computer then the robots prepare the pizza in front of you:

 

[reinking]

Hurry up and get to the sexbots.

I am sure this one can give you a handy-J in a pinch.

 

[Punished Miku]

Elon Musk's Optimus bot stole the show at Tesla's robotaxi unveil - but the AI was all smoke and mirrors.

They were voiced and operated by humans remotely wearing special suits that translated their movements to the droid.

“Today I’m assisted by a human, I’m not yet fully autonomous,” one Optimus operator admitted on video that was shot by a guest who asked.

For many it was reminiscent of another controversy, when Musk shared in January footage of Optimus folding a shirt. Keen observers quickly pointed to the hand of its operator, which failed to be cropped out.

‘CALL IT THE PARLOR TRICK IT IS’

Tesla has been training its robots with the help of people using specialized feedback suits, but Musk gave no indication on Thursday that the robots were operating by any other force than the AI with which they were trained.

He certainly did not mention that the ones in the crowd were essentially metal marionettes.

“Totally worthy to celebrate low latency remote control,” posted Josh Wolfe, co-founder of Lux Capital, “but totally dishonest to demo these as autonomous robots—call it the parlor trick it is.”

“I just wish Tesla was more open and honest at this event, because they gave no, no—NO—hints that the robots were controlled by humans,”

 

[Valonquar]

I'm just surprised they aren't just cheating with these and having immigrants remote pilot them:

 

[IntentionalPun]

Elon Musk's Optimus bot stole the show at Tesla's robotaxi unveil - but the AI was all smoke and mirrors.

Plainly obvious lol

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Great!

Well the little dumb fuck took his hand off his piece then tried to take back his move, what do you expect the robot to do?

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Well the little dumb fuck took his hand off his piece then tried to take back his move, what do you expect the robot to do?

 

[GymWolf]

What price was everyone expecting? This is super reasonable. I totally expected they would cost as much as a car.

30.000 dollars for a robot personal assistant are peanuts.

I thought you had to spend like half a million for a fucking robot that can do your home stuff

 

[Spyxos]

who else is making this stuff or trying to push it to mass production. It could very well be the next leap in technology.

I’d pay any price if someone could make me an Android to be with my son after I’m gone. Especially if it would abide by my living will.

Nvidia Project GROOT for humanoid robots

We're talking about a complete revolution of human labor which could see humanoid robots taking over every labor-intensive job.

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