FSD Tesla Bot

[Dilly]

So, ”sometime next year” there will be a prototype humanoid Tesla robot with cameras and FSD computer.
Presumably it will be able to drive around in my M3 long after I’m dead, testing the beta software.

it could perhaps be used for for the mundane boring job of writing useful software

 

[AndrewGR]

Dilly - do you have a link?
Is this robot driver supposed to be able to make up for the deficiencies in FSD? The mind boggles!

 

[Dilly]

Dilly - do you have a link?
Is this robot driver supposed to be able to make up for the deficiencies in FSD? The mind boggles!

@AndrewGR It’s on the Electrek news channel and there is also Tesla’s AI day there too where it was announced. It wasnt necessarily capable of driving but would do the shopping.

 

[nxsynjs]

Dilly - do you have a link?
Is this robot driver supposed to be able to make up for the deficiencies in FSD? The mind boggles!

It's not a driver. It's a general purpose robot that you can outfight and outrun(rule 1.. cardio)

 

[Gatsojon]

 

[squarepeg77]

This is not what I thought Elon meant by Robotaxi

 

[GRiLLA]

I'm not confident, using FSD it's likely to brake unexpectedly and spill the beer it was bringing me.

 

[pgkevet]

Tesla Bot v Boston Dynamics?

 

[DaveG_NJ]

Another bright shiny object. And it will be ready next year (meaning never). I can guarantee you this: it will fart on command.

 

[thohell]

Neuralink + Tesla Bot = consciousness transfer.

 

[Irata]

A working prototype within a year, no chance. Especially when the launch was a man dancing in an outfit from some cartoon movie.

Tesla's learning platform and engineers are being spread thin. They are over stretching themselves, rather like that dancer onstage.

 

[thohell]

A working prototype within a year, no chance. Especially when the launch was a man dancing in an outfit from some cartoon movie.

Tesla's learning platform and engineers are being spread thin. They are over stretching themselves, rather like that dancer onstage.

That event was recruiting people. Their talent pool is pretty deep with thousands more waiting to join. Number 1 and 2 places that engineers try to work for, Tesla and SpaceX. There's lots of overlapping projects.

 

[GRiLLA]

It's tough to employee the best AI engineers if your company has a single product, because when that's done it would be clear there's no longer a job. You've also wasted all that investment into creating the tools and processes to build AI. Once FSD is done, then localised around the world would it need that much attention, we humans learn to drive once then don't really need more training again.

I don't really understand the human sized bot, but narrow AI has lots of applicability. It would be better if they put it to doing stuff like farming, fruit picking and recycling, meat production. All the things we are suddenly short of in the UK. Self driving trucks should be top of the agenda.

 

[pgkevet]

It's tough to employee the best AI engineers if your company has a single product, because when that's done it would be clear there's no longer a job. You've also wasted all that investment into creating the tools and processes to build AI. Once FSD is done, then localised around the world would it need that much attention, we humans learn to drive once then don't really need more training again.

I don't really understand the human sized bot, but narrow AI has lots of applicability. It would be better if they put it to doing stuff like farming, fruit picking and recycling, meat production. All the things we are suddenly short of in the UK. Self driving trucks should be top of the agenda.

Specialist applications like fruit picking need a product that can negotiate difficult terrain and soft ground, be economic and work long hours without needing recharge breaks etc. A home robot is a status symbol they can charge silly money for (like apple watches), folk will put up with it not working properly (like fsd) and beta test/train it for them at owner expense and frustration.

 

[Adopado]

Self driving trucks should be top of the agenda.

Yes, I thought at one time there was a convoy idea for motorway trips with a human driver in the lead vehicle.

Meantime there's a really innovative proposal that we change the rules and encourage human drivers from the EU to come and work here ... sheesh ... having waved goodbye to Alexy he hardly had time to get home and shake the British mud out of his boots before we're pleading with him to come back!

 

[Yev000]

The pessimism in this thread reminds me that I am indeed in the UK section.

Everything is bad and nothing new will ever change that.

That said, I'm going back to the pub.

 

[MrBadger]

Yes, I thought at one time there was a convoy idea for motorway trips with a human driver in the lead vehicle.

I nearly got involved in the project. Not sure how far it got, but possibly not very far in the UK. It wouldn't do away with drivers though, or at least, at the time (2017/18) it didn't. It required vehicles to be fitted with lane keep assist which wasn't very common, let alone the additional comms needed for platooning itself.

UK set to begin platooning trial for fleet operators - Driving Monitor

The Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) has moved forward with the next stage of platooning trials in the UK, as it looks to hear from HGV operators that could participate. Platooning involves trucks forming an identically spaced-out convoy which is organised in such a way that means that HGVs...

www.drivingmonitor.com

 

[Zakalwe]

Tesla Bot v Boston Dynamics?

I think that BD are chasing the military market hard, though that may change following their recent acquisition.

TeslaBot? Hmm.... Very much a child of the Silicon Valley thought process "we can code, therefore everything can be solved with code". In reality, it's not always solvable...you only have to look at their failure to deliver FSD in a full and final form. Their use of electro-mechanical actuators is interesting given that BD (IIRC) tried these and went to hydraulics.

Tesla really, really, REALLY need a Gwynne Shotwell at the helm. Then Musk could wander off to develop whatever his hugely productive imagination comes up with. There was so much clever stuff that was on show on AI Day for it to be hand-waved away by some nonsense of a skinny bloke in a suit.

I wouldn't bet against Musk having done a load of work on this already, but having any sort of useful prototype in a year is fanciful. Hell, if it using the FSD computer then you can guarantee that if it goes for a stroll down the High Street then it will end up careering into any copper that it sees!

 

[Nick77]

 

[Dilly]

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Yep. That says it all