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Tesla AI Day 2022

#11
confused2 Offline
You'd think they'd give every robot $10 worth of vision - enough to know "That shouldn't be there.". Elon could then demonstrate standing in front of a hacker slasher robot without being hacked or slashed .. probably.
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#12
Yazata Offline
Interesting little video about the mechanical team working on the Teslabot's body actuators.

https://twitter.com/TeslaBotJournal/stat...4065634321

The Teslabot development effort operates out of the former Tesla company headquarters not far from Stanford University.

The current Teslabot crew:


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If anyone wants to join them, and has the required high-level engineering or technical skills, the Teslabot team in Palo Alto appears to be growing very fast and currently has many openings. Tesla pays engineers very well (six figures and up). It looks to me like they are putting lots of effort and resources into this.


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#13
Yazata Offline
Teslabot performs the impossible... and folds a shirt!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1746964887949934958

I'm struck by how human-like its torso, arm and hand movements are. Which shouldn't be surprising since its neural networks are trained on human movements. But just designing and building the mechanical actuators that can take the place of muscles and perform human motions is impressive.

All the more impressive when we remember that the first Teslabot unveil was September 30, 2022, less than 16 months ago. They have already been through three design generations (the initial 'Bumblebee' prototype and the Optimus versions 1 and 2).
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#15
Yazata Offline
On Tesla's earnings-call yesterday, Elon was asked about Optimus. Big points from his answer:

⦿ A good chance of shipping some number of Optimus units commercially next year, but there's uncertainty due to uncharted territory. There are lots of unknowns, so it's hard to make precise predictions.

⦿ Robots are already very good at performing specialized tasks. The challenge is to make them able to usefully perform general tasks.

⦿ They want to make it impossible to download malware into the Teslabots. Emphasis on the importance of a localized shut-off that can't be updated from a central server. "We're gonna take safety very very seriously."

⦿ Plans to periodically update the public with the ongoing progress every few months.

⦿ Elon believes that eventually, the Teslabots have the potential to far exceed the value of everything else at Tesla, combined.

⦿ Potentially, robots have the potential to be the most valuable product of any kind ever, by far.

⦿ The hardware and training technology of Optimus will improve alongside FSD, since they employ the same kind of inference engine.

⦿ People don't realize it, but Tesla is already the world's largest robotics company, since the FSD cars are basically car-shaped robots on wheels with a non-anthropomorphic body shape. The neural network computer that steers the cars is basically the same as what's inside Optimus.
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#17
Yazata Offline
Teslabot walking around -

https://twitter.com/Tesla_Optimus/status...1409573077

One of the Teslabot engineers writes -

This is our fastest gait ever at ~0.6 m/s, > 30% speed boost since our last video in December.

We’ve improved our vestibular system, our foot trajectory, and our ground contact logic. We’ve upgraded our motion planner, and made cuts to the loop latency across the bot. Optimus is more stable and more confident overall - even during turns. We also added a slight torso & arms sway.
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#18
Syne Offline
I'm waiting for robots that don't walk like they have a dirty diaper.
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#19
Yazata Offline
(Feb 25, 2024 05:07 AM)Syne Wrote: I'm waiting for robots that don't walk like they have a dirty diaper.

The Teslabots walk like Joe Biden! (I believe that I heard somewhere that Biden has a strange gait because he has arthritis of the spine.)

But yeah. While the movement of the Teslabot's shoulders, arms and hands is extremely human, its walking gait isn't. For one thing it walks with its knees bent far more than a human. And it walks with its back ramrod straight (which is its Bidenesque characteristic).
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#20
Syne Offline
That's where I've seen that walk!
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