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Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event

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217 points mfiguiere | 2 comments | 14 Oct 24 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.448s | source
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thatguymike ◴[15 Oct 24 03:58 UTC] No.41844811[source]▶
Come on, isn't this obvious? There's no way in crap they were fully autonomous, and I don't think anyone ever claimed that they were. In fact there's multiple examples of them saying "I am remote operated" when asked.

And that doesn't in any way take away from the fact that it's damn cool that they went from "guy in spandex suit" to a walking, dextrous, low latency telepresence robot in a few years.

I hate Musk's new politics (which is obviously what this is all about) but I feel bad for the engineers involved: I suspect everyone was stoked to show off their impressive progress, and a few marketing people decided to under-emphasize the telepresence and made them all look like jerks.

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1. pcchristie ◴[15 Oct 24 04:54 UTC] No.41845073[source]▶
I might be an idiot but it wasn't obvious to me. Watching the demo of the robot standing stationary, responding to a customer ask for (and point to) cellophane bags of chocolate and then the robot grab and pass it to the customer seemed like a reasonable tech demo to show at an event like this and it impressed me.
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2. thatguymike ◴[15 Oct 24 05:15 UTC] No.41845170[source]▶
Yeah but they had the robots hi-fiving, pouring drinks on demand, chatting, playing rock paper scissors... fair enough you could get that idea if you only watched a very small amount of video, but that doesn't equate to Elon Musk hiding things from you.