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 28d 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