Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Tesla Optimus Demo: Details You Might Have Missed”.
New Tesla Bot video just dropped. This one shows the robot autonomously sorting objects doing a bit of yoga and more to understand the finer details in this article, what it reveals about Tesla’s approach to Ai and what separates Optimus from other robots. I asked one of cnet’s, AI and Computing experts to break it all down they’re, making pretty good Headway compared to what we saw back in October when they first debuted Optimus, which I think formerly is called the Tesla bot. But almost nobody, including Tesla, calls it that I think the most interesting thing here is they’re trying to make a a humanoid robot a bipedal humanoid robot has a lot of balance issues, but on the other hand it can fit in to a world. That’S already designed for humans.
We’Ve seen videos of robots sorting objects before. So. What makes this video from Tesla so special? It was pretty impressive. The way uh it moved very smoothly.
It also was able to update its Behavior very rapidly dynamically. When you saw a person, you know switch one of the blocks and it had just placed in the bin, pull it back out. The robot was able to quickly figure that out and grab it again and last. I think this is uh, perhaps more subtle, but I think very important. You saw the robot using it its full body, so it wasn’t just moving its arm. It was moving its shoulders, its hips.
Ultimately, if the, if Tesla, wants to succeed in making you know a very coordinated, useful general purpose, robot, that kind of ability is necessary, Tesla debuted, the demo video along with a tweet or xost. I guess what do you call them now? Let me know in the comments wrong answers only that claims its neural network is trained fully end to end with video in and controls out. I had to ask Stephen what all that meant. I think the most important thing in there is that uh, their AI training data is video. They feed a huge amount of video data in there and then the the AI system learns to recognize the patterns and then is able to sort of encode that into uh A system that then does stuff that controls the robot there. A variety of different robots designed for use in warehouses, even some that went with a humanoid design.
With that in mind, it might feel as though Tesla is a late Challenger in the contest to make humanoid or warehouse robots, but the company’s efforts to make autonomous cars might provide useful experience toward that goal, an autonomous vehicle and a humanoid robot they’re, both a computer. That’S got some sensory apparatus, that’s making decisions on how to behave, how to move, how to navigate through the world how to perform various operations so from a very high level. They’Re similar – and I think one of the interesting more direct uh connections – is that they’re both now trained on video data. So I think that uh as this technology develops, it’s it’s.
You know it’s uncertain how well it will work, but it’s interesting that Tesla is adopting that same approach both for the Optimus bot and for its autonomous vehicle. The video of the robot is presented at 1.5 time speed here. It is slowed back down to regular speed. Just to get a sense of the difference, it’s worth noting that Tesla does have a history of making exaggerated claims about what ITS Technologies can do, most notably the full self-driving debacle, so perhaps good to take any news from the company with a little grain of salt.
Obviously, we’ve had a lot of delays with FSD. I would not be at all surprised to see delays as we discover how difficult it really is to make a general purpose. Humanoid robot. We could potentially see them as soon as 2027, according to Elon Musk last year. I would be surprised, but you know maybe it’s possible uh, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it slips the background music in Tesla’s demo. Video, interestingly, sounds like a remix of the score from the 2014 sci-fi film exmachina, specifically the music from the scene when spoiler alert the robots rise up against their creator. Interesting choice, there’s certainly a risk that advanced, humanoid robots could replace human workers, take the jobs. I I think, that’s a little bit sci-fi we’re not there.
Yet it’s clearly with AI. It’S a worthy discussion, we’re looking at that with the text-based bots. So the question is whether a physical bot like this could do physical labor for people change oil or pick Parts out of a warehouse.
I think that’s a long way away, but it’s certainly a a possibility. What do you think of Optimus Game, Changer or overhyped useful, helper or job zapper? Let me know your thoughts, fears and sci-fi dreams down in the comments, as always thanks so much for watching. I’M your host Jesse oral, see you next time with the fam .