Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
by itsoktocry on Friday August 20, 2021 @06:43AM
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If it's bleeding edge, why does it underperform the competition?
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
by blueblisters on Friday August 20, 2021 @10:35AM
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I'm speaking from my knowledge of the specific technologies they are using - it's fairly close to SOTA. I'm not aware of an apples-to-apples comparison of Tesla's autopilot with a similar system from the competition. Most competitors are using LIDARs and/or running their autonomous vehicles in limited geographical regions. IMO, the state space and action space is significantly more constrained in those cases.
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
by FartyMcFarter on Friday August 20, 2021 @01:52PM
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Having the ability to use LIDAR and not just cameras is less constrained, not more.
Everything they showed today, from the vision models to the path planning to labeling to simulation was bleeding edge. And they seem to have managed to put everything together in what appears to be a tremendous engineering effort. I can't see why they can't use a similar playbook for the humanoid robot and increase value over time. The vision framework they used for self-driving is fairly general and can probably adapted to humanoids. The action policy space is less re-usable but I suspect they have clever ideas on how to tackle that.
Musk may be bad at forecasting but he's darn good at selling stuff that half-works and then assembling a team that can execute on his vision.