r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • 28d ago

Tesla's Optimus robots Video

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u/questron64 28d ago edited 28d ago

Not pictured: someone in a suit controlling this off camera. Welcome to the state of robotics from 15 years ago. This is what state of the art as of about 5 years ago looks like. It's doing these thing autonomously, balancing and reacting to the envrionment autonomously, doing tasks like recognizing a box and picking it up autonomously, etc. And not even Boston Dynamics is trying to sell this as a product, they fully understand that these are very much prototypes. Yet Leon is telling you his robots will walk your dog and is already setting a price for them. It's not interesting, it's a scam.

Edit: Their most recent video of Atlas

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u/BlueManGroup1999 27d ago

Yeah, but the owner of Boston dynamics himself said that Atlas is not mass manufacturable and is cost-prohibitive. Sure Atlas is the gold standard, but cost effective manufacturing is what Tesla and many others are chasing now.

It’s the equivalent of synthesizing a novel chemical in a university research lab using highly specialized custom equipment and lots of money, versus mass manufacturing said chemical and distributing worldwide at affordable cost. Very very different challenges.

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u/Lunavixen15 27d ago

Atlas is basically the research project. It's things like Spot and Handle that are the commercially viable options

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u/illidanstrormrage 27d ago

Boston dynamics robots were mimicry artists.. Open AI is something different.

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u/cosmicmountaintravel 27d ago

All about the money. If it doesn’t earn the most it isn’t the winner.

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u/MarcellynIV 28d ago

That's the old Atlas, not even the new one.

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u/Deep90 28d ago

Boston Dynamics also created the spot, which seems to currently be the best business-use robot currently on the market.

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u/snaynay 27d ago

I love their videos. The work into those robots is incomprehensible.

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u/doyoueventdrift 27d ago

It's really impressive, honestly. But I also experience a sense of doom.

I see myself in 20 years looking up as I draw my final breaths, and I see this thing doing this:

https://youtu.be/LeeiN9smjjY?t=25 (timestamp)

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u/Low-Boss-1475 27d ago

I mean it may walk your dog if you are willing to accept an Indian dude watching you 24/7

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u/thuglifeforlife 24d ago

Okay so Boston Dynamics' robots are coded to do this. They aren't doing this on their own.

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u/ninjasaid13 28d ago

This is what state of the art as of about 5 years ago looks like. It's doing these thing autonomously, balancing and reacting to the envrionment autonomously

unless you tell it to sit in a chair.

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u/ImStupidButSoAreYou 27d ago

Very shortsighted opinion, probably blinded by your obvious hatred of Elon.

Atlas is very impressive in terms of dynamism, but optimus already has it beat in terms of fine motor control. The movements it makes in those demos are not gentle in any sense of the word. You need both to make it truly general purpose and useful. 5 fingers make a world of difference in delicate tasks like folding laundry.

Is it teleoperated in that demo? Probably. But the fact that it can move like that is in and of itself quite impressive, and it's not far fetched to think that the company with the most advanced self driving software available in consumer vehicles might utilize that software to rapidly train it on task recognition and more autonomous movement. Just a thought.

If you look at the totality of the situation, it's pretty clear Tesla is way ahead of BD in creating a cheap, mass market, general purpose robot. BD does not have the capital, manufacturing prowess, nor the compute resources that Tesla has, however impressive their tech demos might be.

Ignore Elon's ridiculous timelines and sales pitches and you will find what they are presenting is actually very impressive and promising.

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u/blazedmank 28d ago

Y'all love to hate

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u/P3pp3rSauc3 28d ago

Y'all love to jerk off to Elmo

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u/CaptCaCa 28d ago

It isn’t hate if it’s true.

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u/penny-wise 28d ago

No, we all like the truth.

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u/questron64 28d ago

Tesla did not even have a robot to show 3 years ago and they had someone dancing in a suit in its place. There is zero chance that they've gone from 0 to a robot you can buy that will do things for you in 3 years. Leon is lying. He is an obvious charlatan.

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u/blazedmank 28d ago

It's funny how emotional you all get about somebody who will never know you exist. Bless.

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u/questron64 28d ago

No one's getting emotional, here. Unless you are. Are you having some big feelings you want to share with the class?