Tesla Elon Musk Unveils Humanoid ‘Optimus’ Robot at Tesla’s AI Day

metadat · on Oct 1, 2022

Is anyone on this thread interested in putting one these in your home for ~$22,000 USD?

If yes, why?

streetcat1 · on Oct 1, 2022

Don't worry, the first commercial robot will be for sale , probably in 10 years if not more (and probably not from tesla).

This was a POC ? Not even sure what was it. Kind of a demo robot with some labs videos.

The real question is what happen to Tesla after Toyota comes with cheap EV.

metadat · on Oct 1, 2022

> The real question is what happen to Tesla after Toyota comes with cheap EV.

What question is there? Tesla has demonstrated lack of expertise in delivering in the cheap+reliable quadrant. Toyota will eat TSLA alive. Probably not a favorable sentiment around HN, but this is the eventuality I see. Elon and his strategies are fundamentally unsustainable, he's a slippery snake. Not the materia long-term empires are made of.

streetcat1 · on Oct 1, 2022

And you will be correct.

Also, I am not sure why a future robot will have only 2 legs and 2 hands ?

Isn't the whole point is the be productive, why not 4 legs and 4 hands?

I am sure that if you run RL experiments in a human house, you would find much more efficient design (I.e. the human design is based on human living in nature).