You’ve heard of a bridge to nowhere?

I suspect this is a pivot to nowhere.

Elon Musk's Meta VR moment is definitely Optimus.

> It is a forced pivot to avoid having to admit failure.

It is also a neat way to reset Elon's Very Reliable Prediction Clock.

I look forward to hearing about how fully functional Optimus robots will be ready to ship "later this year" for the next 10 years.

I wonder if they'll be similarly "self-driving"

https://old.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1ph3scw/tesla_opt...

I thought this was the greatest product demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R40IDdAkRZM

I struggle to imagine what the US version of this intimidating propaganda movie would look like. My mind renders only pictures of square dancing.

China is absolutely crushing everyone mostly across the board in technology these days. It's comical today, but will just be embarrassing soon.

The only bit visually we see China a little behind is AI but I suspect they have much better closed/unreleased models, and the fab/chip space, but they'll close that gap in a short few years I'd expect.

This is amazing! I WISH somebody would take 15 seconds of this clip, add China flag in the bottom, then add scratching sounds of a vinyl disc and forward to this, with Felon Musk/American flag:

https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1ph3scw/tesla_opt...

The US version is all boston dynamics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk&t=9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeeiN9smjjY

Unitree is doing everything Boston Dynamics is doing and more without a physical safety barrier between the robots and the humans.

Perhaps but but it doesn't matter. They have better production capabilities and more experience with drone swarms.

Yeah, that's the most impressive thing about this performance, the robots were safe enough to "interact" with children.

Even if we take into account the smaller size of the robots, it's still impressive, a bad input at the wrong time could easily cause of one of the robots to seriously injure someone, the fact this didn't happen and the producers and the company were confident that it wouldn't happen is the real breakthrough moment.

Sounds a lot like Mars.

If he really almost got self driving what is the point to build non autonomous cars ?

Same with robotics .

They got billions in pocket to either release a few new models to save market or invest into RND to change the market .

Real business people keep running production lines if they are profitable and build additional production lines for new businesses. Real business people do not shut down profitable lines because they are making a pivot, that is what failing startups do.