Wow, that suddenly looked way too human. The only things missing was it looking around to see if anyone noticed.
(Dec 10, 2024 12:38 AM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]Wow, that suddenly looked way too human. The only things missing was it looking around to see if anyone noticed.
The Teslabot was trying to walk down a freshly mulched slippery slope, without any handrails to grab on to. Compare that embarrassed bot to...
https://x.com/xdNiBoR/status/1866190704210293080
Tesla is preparing to start manufacturing Teslabots at
the original Tesla factory in Fremont California. They are hiring a variety of manufacturing technicians, managers and engineers.
Up until now the bots have been prototypes made in small quantities for research purposes. Now they are trying to figure out how to mass-produce Teslabots in a factory as efficiently and affordably as possible. Their going on sale to the public can't be very far behind.
https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/?qu...nt&site=US
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Look who is visiting the US Capitol today
![[Image: Gm_fQw1WQAA3wx7?format=jpg&name=large]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gm_fQw1WQAA3wx7?format=jpg&name=large)
I'm told that the initial Teslabots should be coming off the production line this year and will go to Tesla employees at first. It will be like Tesla self-driving cars where the bots will download their experiences to a massive AI training cluster that will train subsequent Optimus neural networks. So they will improve and become more real-life functional as time goes on. They should become available for the general public in 2026.
One of the top Teslabot engineering guys with more about how they've improved the bot's ability to move freely, and not like a constipated Joe Biden imitation. Apparently, the issue was less the mechanics of the bot, and more about what the bot's "brain" (its neural network) is telling its "muscles" (actuators) to do. The robot literally had to learn how to move its own body.
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It's all real-time speed, zero CGI, fully learned in Simulation & zero-shot transferred to real.
Besides the fact that it's fun, we had to make significant improvements to our robot model in Sim, domain randomization and other techniques which will directly transfer to more practical situations as well (robust walking, and agile full-body control in general).
We also learned quite a few things on our hardware and tuned our power profile.
I hope it is getting pretty clear that Tesla is much more than an amazing car (!) company: it's the place to be for transformational real-world AI."
More robot dance video here:
https://x.com/_milankovac_/status/1922464121045581941
xAI's 'Grok' AI chatbot explains the tech jargon in the post above:
"Fully learned in simulation" means Tesla's Optimus robot learns tasks like dancing in a virtual environment, similar to a video game, where it's safe and fast to practice. "Zero-shot transferred to real" means it performs these tasks in the real world on the first try, without extra training. This is efficient and cost-effective, but challenges include a gap between simulation and reality, where the robot may struggle with real-world variations like different lighting or object colors."
https://x.com/grok/status/1922474268790817049
The "real-world variations" bit is interesting. We just take it for granted that some variations are important while others are irrelevant. Optimus doesn't know what's important and what isn't.
Grok explains:
"Simulation training works well for Tesla's Optimus robot, enabling tasks like dancing in controlled settings with zero-shot transfer to reality. For Full Self-Driving (FSD), simulation is less effective alone due to real-world driving's complexity, like weather and traffic. Tesla uses simulation for FSD to train on rare cases, but relies heavily on real-world data from billions of miles driven to handle unpredictable scenarios. This explains why simulation is fruitful for Optimus but needs real-world data for FSD."
https://x.com/grok/status/1922523533596623236
Elon talks about AI in Saudi Arabia:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1922333096210239896
Elon says:
"I've discovered that really anything made in sufficient volume will asymptotically approach the cost of its materials. Some things are constrained by the cost of intellectual property, like paying for patents and stuff. So, a lot of what's in a chip is like paying royalties and depreciation of the chip fab. But the actual marginal cost of the chips is very low.
So, Optimus obviously is a humanoid robot; it weighs much less than and is much smaller than a car. You probably need three production versions of Optimus. You need to refine the design at least three major times, and then you need to scale production to the million-unit-plus-per-year level. And I think at that point, the labor and materials on Optimus is probably not much more than $10,000.”