Tesla Bot Update – Sort and Stretch [video](youtube.com) |
Tesla Bot Update – Sort and Stretch [video](youtube.com) |
I'll admit I don't know much about the state of the enterprise robotics/automation market but it would seem like the market would be limited by the fact that: 1.) The companies able to afford such robots would have much higher throughput capacity requirements and would want to setup much more customized automation. 2.) The companies in the sweet spot in terms of lower throughput capacity requirements would not be able to afford the upfront cost of such robots.
I think the primary use case would be perhaps if these could actually get in the sub $100K-$150K range end cost wise which seems a bit far off given the complexity I'm seeing here. Perhaps the idea is to go for the long game?
It feels like a version with just the top half of the humanoid would be more interesting if it could cut costs particularly since this thing likely needs to be tethered for reliable power and communications in a factory automation setting.
The car has lots of compute power, likely they are sharing things with the car. The car has 5 cameras and a host of other sensors as well.
The car also requires the cost of a huge battery and tons of materials plus a lot of manual work for the interiors, plus cooling and so on.
Yes the robot has a lot more actuators and complex mechanical pieces but is that gone cost as much as 2 full cars?
What complexity do you think would be so costly here?
Cars are only cheap because of massive economies of scale. This robot will probably be hand assembled, making it obviously quite expensive. Not to mention the need to recoup a lot the R&D investment money over relatively few units.
It'd be interesting if one of the Tesla car teardown YouTubers (i.e. Munro, Engineering Explained) did an Optimus humanoid robot first principles teardown.
Either way the video is purposely deceptive and the robot is nowhere near even a university-level vision-based robot when seen at normal speeds.
1) Tesla is only good at creating SPAMbots 2) Google owns lots of Tesla stocks 3) Humanity is completely braindead
or all of the above. lmao. :'O
The Video is CLEARLY fake AND Tesla having such huge amounts of money doing such a bad job at CGI makes me really wonder how stupid people have become. Lots of glitches, no need to be an expert to see that.
I'm curious, dropped out of state school economics: for robotics types is "sort blue and green" something you should be able to pull of as an undergrad, given equipment?
Its actually easier than you would expect! you can use a process in image processing called "thresholding" where you basically filter the RGB or color values. Its very common and a little "hack" on compute. Computers "look" at images or video by converting the camera data into large matrices. Red would be 1 matrix, blue another, green another. Instead of this, you typically convert it to black and white but you can do any color you want, depending what youre looking for. This reduces your compute from 3 matrixes to 1 and makes your functions exponentially faster. Someone can help me on O(n) notation lol.
This one does look quite impressive even if it is sped up a bit (find me a robot hand manipulation video that isn't).
I'm actually really excited about the current state of robotics, and wouldn't be surprised if it ends up being the most impactful outcome of the most recent AI developments over the next 10-15 years.
I know there's a lot of hate for Elon Musk / Tesla, but at the end of the day he's just the money guy for some really great researchers out there.
This argument never makes sense as it's pure circular reasoning. He's had no money to invest in anything without taking from some of his companies (which is what happened to Twitter). You can't invest in Tesla with money from Tesla.
This reads like they haven't already taken that risk with fatal consequences.
Not seeing how a robot, literally marketed as being powered by the FSD computer, could actually work unless the underlying FSD system actually works. Which it doesn't.
Computer vision to detect red and green blocks in a controlled environment is completely trivial.
Driving a robot with human hands to pick up and manipulate blocks is still advanced research.
I'll put you down as a yes on sorting, no on self balancing humanoid robot
Tesla is vertically integrated into producing most of the electronics (including the engine) in the car and in the charging networks. They also design products to be manufactured efficiently.
This suggests that they should be able to mass produce actuators and put those robots together efficiently. Musk looks at mass manufacture as part of the product development. However in the end this relies on enough demand being out-there so that its worth continuing the scale up of manufacturing lines.
It will likely take a many more iteration for this to be more then a tech demo.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/tesla-robo...
