They still have the hockey stick around as a reminder to Atlas.
Meanwhile, Tesla is showing off pretend robots to serve drinks to Elon stans. Don’t look behind the curtain.
Now, I’ve no love for Musk or his BS but I keep hearing that they were actors in costumes, yet they were actually remote controlled robots, like you might see at a theme park. If instead of trying to pass them off as automatonomous, AI driven robots, they were to market them as surrogates (like the movie) and focused on longer range remote connections for them that would be far less stupid. They might even sell if they weren’t associated with a dumbass.
Teslabot only needs AI control to be a viable human worker replacement. They will release it earlier than they should and there will be problems that they learn through public beta testing(see Tesla autonomous driving.)
Atlas is incubating in an internal beta so it can be exactly what they want to deliver. I honestly think Atlas is good enough to be put in the real world as-is, but I applaud their patience and desire to have as close to perfection as possible.
I expect Teslabot to retail over their $30k estimate, probably closer to $60k at turn-key. Atlas I expect to be closer to $100k or more with support contracts. Teslabot will probably be the hot product for the wealthy to act as a butler or grocery getter when paired with an autonomous Tesla. Atlas will be more commercially successful but a small number of rich nerds would totally get one to play with.
“All we’re missing is the single hardest piece, which we have been failing to make work in cars for years”
Based on my experience with how destructive a robot vacuum can be, there is 0% chance I would let a Tesla developed robot exist in my house.
I definitely would want an Atlas over the Teslabot even as a surrogate. It would fucking suck to fall down and actually have to leave your house to get back up again.
I don’t even understand why they would lie about that. There’s loads of uses for a humanoid remote controlled body.
Domain experts that need to carry out dangerous tasks, people being able to carry out tasks at distant locations without the hassle of actually traveling there - very useful when you only intermittently require a physical presence.
I have long since thought that bomb diffusing should be done via a robotic body. Much better to risk a replaceable humanoid drone than the whole human.
From the couch, I don’t understand why a humanoid body would be best for this… We humans have to work with what we initially had, but why wouldn’t a robot be better? Seems like even a wheeled/threaded cart, or a quadruped with arms could be more practical in a lot of situations…
The idea isn’t to be hyper specialized to a specific task. It’s to be hyper generalized to fit into spots already being filled by human workers. The goal is for the machine to be placed in the role of a paid human worker without the need to specialize anything else in the environment, a drop-in automation solution.
Because a human body has no capability of controlling a non-human design. My fingers bend the way human fingers bend, I can’t make them do anything else.
If you all design an interface to emulate human behavior then it needs to have human capabilities and human limits otherwise I can’t control it.
Wow…that thing is straight up nightmare fuel as it turns to walk back to get another whatever it’s moving.
Normal, if stiff, human range of motion. Until it rotates completely around the waist!
Haha, totally, especially combined with the sounds of its evenly paced steps. I can see myself shuddering at that sound while hiding from them, crawling behind destroyed cars and other debris through dark and grey streets in a dystopian future…
/me snaps out of the daydream
This is why I say please and thank you when I use ChatGPT…
I do it because I know the NSA is listening. Hopefully a little politeness will keep me off the watch list.
What’s the maximum hip thrusting frequency on one of these? It’s for a friend 😄.
Wouldn’t be surprised if it could literally split you in two and I’m not sure whether that’s a good or bad answer, but I won’t kink shame.
There might be a new room in everyone’s home for this. First there was the living room and the infamous “love seat”…but we know better…it was a duck bench! Then they housed whatever was the “kit” in it’s own Chen! They even put the beds in their own room along with the bath. Even the Gays got a Rash for cars. And now, move over Vibrator!, sayonara Silicone tipped hacksaw! Here comes Atlas… better known as Atlass! The fuck that never stops! It’s for you hard working man or woman, for you who can’t get enough from. JUST 5 minutes. Atlas will give you 60 minutes at 60hertz or more until it really hurts!
How much does one of these robots cost? And when can we buy one for our homes?
They did a Halloween one where it’s dressed up like a hotdog and a pickle messes with it lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rFqD1Np5P8
