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It sure seems like the Optimus robots at Tesla's event were under human control (electrek.co)

submitted 1 month ago by AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He [Elmo] referred to these as “your own personal R2D2 C3-PO,” and that in the long term, these robots would cost less than a car – specifically, ~$20k-$30k. A video also described them as an “autonomous assistant, humanoid friend” which could be used for basically any task you can think of.

Perhaps don't market things as something they're not?

[–] quafeinum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Imagine paying 30k$ so that some guy in India gives you regular handjobs 🤦

Now imagine that’s your job 🤦

[+] Ste41th@lemmy.ml -40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're pretending as if he's just honest and this is just the most reasonable ways of doing things.

You're completely ignoring the intentional misrepresentation of the capabilities of the technology. The main point of the robots is to be autonomous, which they're not.

It's like if I were making some waterproof product and then made a huge presentation in which I have to avoiding getting any water on the product, while pretending they're immersed in water.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

In this instance he is marketing what the final product is meant to do

He's been doing that with full self driving for the last decade and the event showed it might be a decade more. It doesn't give much confidence.

[–] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago

Is Tesla selling their fully autonomous driving cars yet?

A promise from Melon means nothing.

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

Which is lying. Miss selling conceptually in the UK. It would be illegal.