Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
by majewsky on Friday August 20, 2021 @05:53AM
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Flipping rockets is a simpler problem in the sense that it the required technology already existed, there just wasn't anyone with enough incentive and resources to actually do it.
Human-level robotics, on the other hand, is not a problem of missing incentive. For all I know about the field (as a casual observer), we are still several breakthroughs away from achieving this goal.
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
by rlt on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:20AM
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How do you define the “required technology” for these problems?
We have actuators, sensors, and computers to build humanoid robots, isn’t it “just” a software problem like flipping rockets was?
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
by itsoktocry on Friday August 20, 2021 @06:38AM
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You seem to be missing the point that landing the rocket is a cool trick that may or may not be useful right now.
There's a difference between not being able to do something, and not having a reason to.
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
by runawaybottle on Friday August 20, 2021 @03:20PM
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Some of you are absurd. Landing rockets is a neat trick? Okay, how about doing it for NASA contracts?
Enough.
Flipping that rocket and getting NASA contracts to go actually do it against Boeing/Lockheed/etc is not a toy problem.
I don’t want to say it would never have happened without Spacex, but probably it would not have happened in our lifetime.