Tesla ending Models S and X production

Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production by seanhunter on Thursday January 29, 2026 @02:16AM (#46806830)

Well for home use you probably also want a robot that won’t accidentally murder your pet, injure your children, break itself and/or your prized possessions by doing the wrong thing, etc etc etc.

These are unsolved problems for robotics. There is a reason that most industrial robots work behind guards or in very constrained areas with use cases that are 100% on rails and stringently tested.

The idea that if you just make a robot in a human shape all these cease to be problems is magical thinking. We are fare from knowing that a humanoid-ish robot is the best option to do any of these things because we have no idea what it would take for it to do these things safely other than to say it would take technology that we currently don’t have.

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Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production by sejje on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:50AM (#46810936)

What? You don't think I should give my humanoid robot a chainsaw and tell it to clear the field?

WCGW?

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Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production by seanhunter on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:44AM (#46811690)

Hehe. Yeah exactly. At the moment I have to prep the room for my roomba so it doesn't eat my rug and commit suicide by cable. I can't imagine a humanoid, presumably strong, robot let loose in my home and I am for sure a tech enthusast.

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Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production by sejje on Thursday January 29, 2026 @11:10AM (#46812141)

I'm not likely to be the guinea pig, either.

I want the endgame version, but not the first version.

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