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14 months ago a lot of people said it was “laughable” that Tesla thought they’d have a working prototype of a humanoid robot in under a year…

I’ll take Tesla engineer’s over 95% of the industry any day.



No. Most of us correctly noted that no matter how much effort Tesla puts into Optimus, it won't be as good as Honda's Asimo demo for years.

Let alone Boston Dynamic's demos. Or Disney's stunt robot.

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So we're mostly laughing at the wasted effort. Of course it's possible, other companies made humanoid walking robots like 20 years ago.

The other questions, like how to actually make money from them, remain unanswered.


The same way Musk’s other effort make money: government subsidies.


The differentiator with Tesla’s bot is not in the way it walks, but the way it learns and “thinks” - Tesla engineers are building Artificial General Intelligence into their bot:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intellige...

In a few years I think even the general public will be able to understand the difference between Asimo and Optimus. It will be remarkable to see Optimus performing tasks independently.

Update: it’s fair to be skeptical, but bear in mind the concept of a desirable EV was an “I’ll believe it when I see it” until Musk’s sheer force of willpower made it happen. He delivers later than he promises, but he does tend to deliver.


That claim has about as much behind it as all of the full self driving claims.


The self driving claims that the full released version would be in the 2010s.


"Full self-driving will come in n+1 one years - I promise"


I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime his team still can't even deliver on Tesla's self driving promises.


If they actually have an AGI up their sleeve then spending time on hardware seems like a waste of time.


Oh, I missed this. It now makes sense. Thank you!


No, people said they’d never have a working prototype that was in any way useful or demonstrative.

And those people were right.


Is it as working as their FSD?




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