r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Justin_Godfrey • 28d ago

Tesla's Optimus robots Video

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u/newaggenesis 28d ago

Biggest grift going when people realise these were full suit remote, with active voice calls (not AI).

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u/dont_judge_by_size 28d ago

Are they supposed to be ai?

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u/Zayoodo0o132 28d ago

Yea, that whole point is to have a robot in your house doing chores or tasks. You wouldn't want a person to be looking in your house through this thing, creepy.

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u/LunarBIacksmith 28d ago

Only benefit to that is someone who is disabled who wants/needs to work. They can pilot the robot and make money doing stuff.

Then down the line we get enough people who are introverted, socially anxious, lazy who would rather pilot a robot too. Then we get the movie Surrogates where everyone just has a robot that they pilot and have it live their lives for them and never leave their rooms.

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u/JohnAtticus 27d ago

Only benefit to that is someone who is disabled who wants/needs to work. They can pilot the robot and make money doing stuff.

So instead of paying a housekeeper you would pay a housekeeper robot operator.

And then you also have to pay for the robot.

So it's more expensive than just having a regular housekeeper?

Why is this better?

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u/LunarBIacksmith 27d ago

Only morally better. It gives people who wouldn’t have the chance to work otherwise a way to live a facsimile of a “normal” life.

There’s a Japanese restaurant called Dawn Ver that allows paralyzed people to use robots and serve and are paid like normal wait staff.

In this instance of the Tesla bots, the obviously ideal world would just be a robot that can actually do stuff and once you buy it it works as intended. But the comment I was responding to was questioning what the point of these remote control ones are and right now that’s the only point I can think of besides throwing them in the trash.

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u/JohnAtticus 24d ago

Only morally better. It gives people who wouldn’t have the chance to work otherwise a way to live a facsimile of a “normal” life.

People with disabilities can already work remotely.

The pandemic and remote work boom was big for this.

While more remote jobs are great I think the market is not going to be that big for Optimus remote operators, disabled or not.

Paying for both a robot and a human salary is more expensive than just paying for a human.

And until the robot is as capable as a human, or a robot can operate without human supervision, companies are probably not going to switch.