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My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade

by rexstjohn on 10/1/22, 3:10 PM with 17 comments

• by tibbydudeza on 10/1/22, 7:43 PM

  Human walking is just us falling forward and then subconsciously correcting it - research found that our footsteps are never the same and can vary by up to 80%.

  It seems like a hard problem this human locomotion - almost like self driving cars.

• by bckr on 10/1/22, 4:08 PM

  Worth watching on 1.5x speed. Good thoughts and info on directions for future robotics.

• by vardump on 10/1/22, 5:29 PM

  Not very surprising that a company with a lot of experience in building electric motors goes for servos.

  Doesn't necessarily make it a right choice, though.

  However, Tesla (usually) does the right thing after exhaustively trying all the wrong ones first. :-)

• by melling on 10/1/22, 4:53 PM

  “servos are the local maxima for robotics“

  “The future is tendon driven and evolutionary algorithms “

  “passive dynamics”

• by sixQuarks on 10/1/22, 9:14 PM

  You realize both rocket and car manufacturing experts said the same type of things when Elon entered their fields. He can’t do this, can’t do that, should do this, should do that… etc

  Let’s see how things progress 5 years from now

• by suitcaseman2 on 10/1/22, 5:22 PM

  make passive dynamics great again!!!