They still have the hockey stick around as a reminder to Atlas.

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    Meanwhile, Tesla is showing off pretend robots to serve drinks to Elon stans. Don’t look behind the curtain.

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      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.

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        Because the point of Tesla bots is to replace workers, not allow them to be comfortable

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        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…

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          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.

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          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.

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      100% that Optimus can’t even recover themselves after falling down, or even self balance when bump into. They have to clear the line for Optimus to carefully walk toward the crowd lol.