What tesla are conceptually pitching here (let's ignore that they'll deliver something that's pretty useless by comparison to what they're hoping you're assuming they mean) is a not-in-our-lifetimes leap in robotics in multiple ways
The huge task is anyway not to build a robot. The huge part is to make the robot (or any device) smarter than a slice bread.
Your contention is that its power consumption that makes a general purpose humanoid robot impossible?
He probably doesn’t even do it to bump the stock price. It’s probably just about doing whatever will impress Grimes for a little while. Then they both smoke so much weed they forget the previous never-gonna-happen idea and come up with a brand new one.
> Remember the Cybertruck?
Cybertruck is literally not vapoware. It was never even supposed to come out before the end of this year. Technically they are not even late yet. Now they have pushed it back into 2022 but that is a few month delay is really not a that big a deal for a truck product with a new architecture based on a new factory.
The way you talk is as if the Cybertruck was supposed to be out last year and was delayed to 2025.
Literally every indication is that this will be a very successful product for Tesla. It being a few month, or half a year late is really not that big deal for a engineering and manufacturing project of that scale.
> Or how he said he could control pigs by putting microchips in their brains?
That was never what they actually said. Why the need to just make up stuff? And again, the never claimed this was a product anybody can just go out and buy within a year or so.
Neurolink the company is still working on that and literally nobody expected them to have a product yet.
Why do you feel the need to shit on the engineers that work on this just because you have some issue with Musk? The companies first goal is to make a product the help people with different deceases and disabilities. Do you get equally dismissive of all medical companies that don't have a product in the market after a few years of fundamental research?
So just because you have made up a wild story about Neurolink being about controlling sheep and you don't remember seeing a video of a remote controlled sheep on twitter you conclude that it is all bullshit.
> It’s probably just about doing whatever will impress Grimes for a little while.
This sort of psychoanalysis is literally the lowest form of comment you can find on Hacker News. You should be ashamed of yourself.
> Then they both smoke so much weed they forget the previous never-gonna-happen idea and come up with a brand new one.
Yeah because a Musk company has never actually done what they said they would. Literally all Musk does is make up stuff and that is why his companies constantly fail and never produce any product.
No matter SpaceX will launch 50-80% of total payload to Orbit this year. No matter that SpaceX produced the best rocket engine in human history. No matter SpaceX is universally accepted as the globally dominate space company. They control more satellites then all other government and companies combined.
No matter that Tesla is universally acknowledged as the global leader in BEV, auto-selling the second best most prolific BEV company by 2x and volume and far more then that in revenue. No matter they produced the fastest production car in human history. No matter that they literally designed a new battery and battery factory from the ground up.
No matter that both company are growing widely fast and Tesla being very profitable. SpaceX was very profitable but huge investment in Starship and Starlink likely make it unprofitable right now, but the unit economics are still great on their core business.
But of course, these are clear signs that all he does is sit around and get high and comes up with ideas to impress his girlfriend. Honestly, I can not even imagine what level of dislike or jealousy somebody must have to be so dismissive of somebody else.
If you want to call him a social inept asshole that is fine, but your argument simply doesn't hold water.
You missed the opportunity to say "globally accepted as the universally dominate space company"
And I notice you gave me a 6,000-word rant in response to my post, yet you dropped that whole Bitcoin thing as if I hadn't even said it.
Specially a person with the history of having the exact follow-through you criticize him for. Have you literally not been around for the last 2 decades?
Funny that this person that you have diagnosed drug addiction is widely more successful then you are.
I have a decade of experience in robotics (including both humanoid robots and self-driving cars) and I think this is optimistic.
Robotics is a wonderful field if you like to work on hard research problems. It is a terrible field if you're trying to invent a profitable product.