The Robots Tesla Used to Serve Drinks at the Cybercab Event Had Some Human Help
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- Oct 14, 2024
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Tesla’s Optimus robot may not have advanced as far as the company would like you to think.
The EV maker’s humanoid droids show-stealing performance at the Cybercab unveiling wasn’t all it was cracked up to be, according to Electrek. Some of the most impressive aspects of the Optimus performance appear to have been human-assisted.
Related Stories — Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) October 11, 2024
What could have represented an important milestone for Tesla’s A.I. efforts has instead become a fresh embarrassment for the company. In a post on X, attendee Robert Scoble wrote that a human was “remote assisting” the Optimus droid that had made him a drink (though he didn’t seem particularly put off by this). This claim was backed up by a note the next day by Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas, who wrote (via Electrek): “It is our understanding that these robots were not operating entirely autonomously—but relied on tele-ops (human intervention) so it was more a demonstration of degrees of freedom and agility.”
It should be noted that Tesla did not make much of an effort to hide that Optimus wasn’t operating fully autonomously. One of the robots told Scoble it couldn’t “disclose” how much of its actions were the result of A.I. before adding that “it might be some.” The Verge also points out that the robots had different voices, suggesting they were controlled by multiple people. Thursday night wasn’t as bad as the time Tesla sent out a human dressed as Optimus, but it’s yet more proof that the full autonomous operation of the humanoid droid has more potential than reality.
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