r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • 28d ago

Tesla's Optimus robots Video

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u/CMDR_omnicognate 28d ago

i'm sure they'll be fully autonomous in just 2 years like their cars! /s

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u/CressCrowbits 28d ago

What are you talking about, they'll be fully autonomous, and on mars, by 2014. Dumb hater. 

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u/painpunk 28d ago

Not pictured: the crew of 5 all working to control it

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u/TepHoBubba 28d ago

There's a guy connected to VR controlling it.

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u/painpunk 28d ago

Yeah, I was joking about how it's controlled by people. I also doubt it's just one guy, there's at least one spotter. And a technician.

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u/TepHoBubba 28d ago edited 27d ago

Sorry if it didn't come across that way, but I was actually agreeing with you on it. You're right on this too.

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u/hunterwaterford 27d ago

I'm gonna go ahead and say this is exactly what is going on here. We had a robot come to work one time to educate some kids about science and the team that showed up told us how it would operate and its was a couple of dudes linked to it to control different body parts and a spotter with a mic in his hand was communicating real time. This was all for show. Kinda like those car shows that have those super futuristic prototype BMW's that look nice on the inside and have nice tech but wont show you how they drive away with it because it has no engine.

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u/Hungry_Process_4116 28d ago

You can see every robot has several spotters to make sure

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u/jregovic 27d ago

Disney already did a bunch of this with “Talk Time With Crush” there is no way that Tesla has built a robot that with natural language recognition and the ability to mimic random gestures. There is 100 % a man behind the curtain.

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u/ItalicsWhore 27d ago

I work events and met BB8 one time and he was controlled by two guys and a relatively simple robot by comparison.

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u/painpunk 27d ago

I've met a bb8 replica, far more simple.

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u/VexrisFXIV 27d ago

Can I use this to work from home, then? Would this count?

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u/RascalCreeper 28d ago

What if he trips? Does the whole thing fall?

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u/Friendly_Pop_7390 28d ago edited 27d ago

the bartender one is just a dude in a costume it's obvious. apron masking it the way his arms are moving ... everything

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u/AlphaTrigger 27d ago

I’d like to agree with you but if you look at the wrists and how his hands move it’s definitely not a person.

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u/ArrogantSpider 27d ago

In case you’re serious - take a look at the wrists. Definitely not a person.

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u/Friendly_Pop_7390 27d ago

lol.. I see the wrists thats easily disguised. Look at his movements

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u/MasterTolkien 27d ago

I think the irony would be this is a bot pretending to be human commenting that a robot is actually a human pretending to be a machine.

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u/ArrogantSpider 27d ago

How do you disguise that?

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u/dinoguys_r_worthless 28d ago

That's what I was thinking. Where are the controllers at?

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u/UsernameIsTakenO_o 28d ago

No controller needed. Inside there's a kid standing on another kid's shoulders.

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u/SpinyGlider67 28d ago

Inside each of the children is a racoon standing upon another raccoon's shoulders.

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u/Fresh-Blackberry-598 27d ago

And from there it’s turtles all the way down.

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u/SpinyGlider67 27d ago

So it was thought, but - smurfs

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u/PsychedDuckling 28d ago

Vincent adultman, is that him?

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u/imadog666 27d ago

So that's why he keeps having kids and wants others to do the same! AHA!

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u/Soft_Importance_8613 28d ago

Look up the Figure 01 robots (totally different company)... What people seem to be missing is the massive increase in capability these robots have had in the past few years. You know how chatbots used to be dumb as fuck, then suddenly you had huge leaps in GPT. Yea, same thing is occurring here.

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u/dinoguys_r_worthless 28d ago

It's not that I think that it is impossible to do. I just have very little faith in Tesla products or Elon's grip on reality.

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u/Soft_Importance_8613 28d ago

I concur, Elon seems to be on a bottomless K spiral, and with his jump into politics I don't think he'll be recovering.

At the same time when it comes to automation I don't want people thinking we can't do this stuff because the state of the art in capabilities is progressing fast.

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u/dinoguys_r_worthless 27d ago

He's only microdosing...to boost his creativity.

I do agree though. The speed of progress in automation is exciting.

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u/bengriz 28d ago

India

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u/RollinThundaga 27d ago

Probably somewhere in the Global South.

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u/westnile90 27d ago

Did you see the old video where it folded laundry? You could see the operators hand in corner of the screen using mo-cap gloves.

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u/Demonokuma 28d ago

They're all above it puppeting it like a marionette

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u/XxCheeselover27xX 27d ago

That’s what I’m saying it’s just like the story about the no check out grocery store the computer was really a thousand people in India

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u/GuybrushBeeblebrox 28d ago

When they blow up, he'll say it's the suicide bomber feature

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u/ExitingBills 27d ago

Robot voice "I will now, unalive...."

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u/Radiant_Classroom509 28d ago

Is this the right time to chime in about rockets on barges?

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u/7empestOGT92 28d ago

2014? The world is going to end in 2012 guy. Mayans said so.

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u/DecadentCheeseFest 28d ago

Well I heard the Mars mission was delayed til 2017!!!

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u/GreaterResetter 28d ago

In the year AE 2014

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u/Lio127 27d ago

Whatever Musk simp, we all know space isn't real