Tesla AI Day 2022

If this thing can clean the kitchen, load&#x2F;unload the dishes, and do laundry it will be huge. That seems realistic based on the demo.<p>I imagine it will need an impressive amount of safety features.

The Tesla Robot was underwhelming. I appreciate the engineers on stage highlighting their work, but it all felt a generation behind Boston Dynamic’s efforts.

I like how Elon is optimizing for hiring the best talent over keeping technology secret.

At this point the best thing to do is to have the Tesla Robot drive a model 3 around town, picking up passengers a la Total Recall taxi driver.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Yy2i1U5pS4E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Yy2i1U5pS4E</a>

From Tesla&#x27;s channel:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ODSJsviD_SU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ODSJsviD_SU</a>

Putting together the gang that manhandled the Optimus bot on stage and the video of the grand piano being lifted up and down you can see the business usecase for the removalist industry which charges by the step to relocate such a piano from A to B. Decades ago the price per step was $50, not the U.S. dollar.

I am curious, if they indeed used first principle thinking in order to design a robot that has to be able to replace human labor &#x2F; jobs, why the robot needs to have 28 actuators and look and function exactly like a humanoid? It seems like copying exact human form, mobility, and movement would almost be arbitrary, and not really necessary. Anyone else have an informed idea as to why that wanted to so precisely copy the human form and movement?<p>Most robotics as far as I understand are designed to be specific to a set of tasks, and the design is optimized around that, thus no other industrial robots look exactly like humans, as far as I am aware. Are they being too ambitious, and romantic, in trying to design a robot that does too much while looking like a human?

I think the problem is not in the robot hardware but in the software, same as with self driving cars.<p>What would help the development would be a &quot;standard&quot; hardware platform one can just buy and add own code.

As long as they dont give it a gun or a dick, Im OK with it

A useful robot with initial purpose that takes job away, now, primarily from black and brown people. To be clear this is a tech product that increases profitability for a company.<p>Are ethics discussed in the presentation?<p>Social equity?<p>Watching now ... it&#x27;s 3hrs .. looking for ethics consideration.<p>.. ok he simplifies what an Economy is, to the theoretical. Can an economy be one which frees marginalized people from poverty? I&#x27;m skeptical and hope Tesla has an Economist, on stage, shortly. Musk is claiming good intention, explicitly.<p>Q: So, who does this? Who is planning future economies where marginalized groups are even further marginalized?<p>Edit: down voting is perplexing, it&#x27;s a reasonable topic for discussion given the significance of this tech neutralizing Labor.<p>Edit 2: we should have qualms about technology that disrupts sensitive populations. I have no qualms about introduction of things like Docker which disrupted the people who wrote lots of crazy scripts to help deployment of crazy configurations to process data on collections of servers. The key is the marginalized community, who is not in a position to be able to pivot because they are marginalized.