Elon Musk’s Beer-Pouring Optimus Robots Are Not Autonomous

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-beer-pouring-optimus-robots-are-not-autonomous-2000510899

35 Comments

  1. even_less_resistance on

    Nah, these are going to pilot us to Mars in personal StarCapsules by 2030. Calling it now

  2. like with his autonomous driving, why hasn’t there been a class action lawsuit for false advertising?!

  3. >Other users wanted to know how Scoble figured it out. The tech influencer tweeted back simply, “I asked.”

    Its not like they were trying to intentionally mislead people that they were acting autonomously. This is such a non story. There are plenty of valid criticisms of Musk, but this is a silly thing to get worked up about. Cmon yall.

  4. Who saw those and thought they were autonomous? He can’t get a car to drive itself but you think a fucking bipedal robot would work? Fuck no, it’s a grift like all his other stuff.

  5. I’m not sure how they were selling it

    But this is still pretty impressive.

    If they were pushing it as fully AI, then no.

  6. The amount of people i see on social media that think the robots were moving and speaking autonomously blows my mind. We’re fucked as a society if we’re really this gullible

  7. crashtestpilot on

    Heironymous and optometrist are two more words for the bar rhyme scheme, if anyone happens to be rapping.

  8. Elon isn’t autonomous either…He’s being controlled by those robots who are acting like they’re not sentient.

  9. The real business plan is to hire kids in Venezuela to run these for $1/hr. Think of how much money the average fast food restaurant could save by outsourcing minimum wage employees to a country with an even lower minimum wage. This is how the food delivery robots work in a lot of big cities

  10. Honestly he could have admitted they were remote control and it would have been pretty dope.
    I’d spend at least $200 for an R.C. Humanoid.

  11. lol who would have thought? Apart from the simps for billionaires and people financially invested in Musk’s various scams (including TSLA), no one but true idiots would believe in anything Musk says.

  12. AverageLiberalJoe on

    You guys think beer will be cheaper now that we have replaced human bartenders with humans controlling humanoid robot bartenders? Genius.

  13. Anyone that watched the demo should be able to tell there was no autonomy there. You’re gonna try and tell people you programmed a bunch of human ticks and reactions in while Boston Dynamics just figured out how to make them jump?

    Fuck off, Tesla. That was a circus, not a tech demo.

  14. gordonmcdowell on

    I was unaware the earlier video demos were remotely controlled as well. The folding clothes where you can see the operator’s hand in the corner of the frame as pointed out by Gizmodo? That is news to me. Dang, I’d really assumed up until yesterday’s demo raised the issue…. I had assumed all these demos were autonomous.

  15. The voices and the quick and sometimes stuttered responses show there was no ai and they clearly had someone speaking through them

  16. Bro listening to that thing respond to his questions it’s 100% a person controlling and answering.