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Animats ◴[] No.41844346[source]
That was obvious to anyone with any experience with real-world robots.

Nice piece of machinery, though. Boston Dynamics' humanoids were clunky electrohydraulic mechanisms borrowed from their horse-type robots. All-electric is now possible and much simpler. Schatft was the first to get this working, and they had to liquid-cool the motors. Don't know if Tesla has to liquid cool. They do that in the cars, so they certainly understand liquid-cooled electric motors.

I suspect that body balance and possibly walking were automated. It's hard to balance a teleoperated robot manually, and robotic biped balancing has been working for years now.

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1. dawnerd ◴[] No.41844941[source]
But the problem is the majority of people buying and hyping TSLA are not working or have close experience with robotics to see what’s real vs human controlled. That’s intentionally deceptive.
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2. SergeAx ◴[] No.41899936[source]
Well, maybe they shouldn't buy the stock of the company they don't understand? Or at least check experts' opinion beforehand? This sounds like an obvious hint in case of pharma or defense industry, why automotive should be different?