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Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” by nacs on Friday August 20, 2021 @12:25AM (#28242571)
Except Boston Dynamics is a large well-funded, dedicated operation with probably the best robotics people money can buy. Also, they've been it for years and even then their top end humanoid stuff is still super bulky compared to what Elon showed today in their concept.

Also considering Tesla use all 3rd-party assembly-arms in their factories to build their cars, I'm having trouble seeing Tesla shipping anything this sleek and compact to a consumer market..

Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” by smabie on Friday August 20, 2021 @01:00AM (#28242777)
Boston robotics is valued at 1.1bn. That's nothing. Musk could easily buy them from Hyundai without even thinking about it.
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” by loriverkutya on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:36AM (#28243607)
If they are happy to sell it.
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot” by loceng on Friday August 20, 2021 @06:28AM (#28244557)
My guess is he probably figured it'd be cheaper to spend the money on development, especially since it'll be a redevelopment from the ground up following different design-engineering principles as new constraints; including designed to be mass produced which BD robots don't seem streamlined for and are arguably overkill for general use (and not needing to handle heavy loads nor do parkour etc).