CEO Elon Musk promised more than a "human in a robot suit," but the videos we've seen sure look like a human was still involved.
    • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      753·
      18 days ago

      He [Elmo] referred to these as “your own personal R2D2 C3-PO,” and that in the long term, these robots would cost less than a car – specifically, ~$20k-$30k. A video also described them as an “autonomous assistant, humanoid friend” which could be used for basically any task you can think of.

      Perhaps don’t market things as something they’re not?

      • quafeinum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        18 days ago

        Imagine paying 30k$ so that some guy in India gives you regular handjobs 🤦

        Now imagine that’s your job 🤦

        • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27·
          18 days ago

          In this instance he is marketing what the final product is meant to do

          He’s been doing that with full self driving for the last decade and the event showed it might be a decade more. It doesn’t give much confidence.

        • bufalo1973@lemmy.mlEnglish
          251·
          18 days ago

          Is Tesla selling their fully autonomous driving cars yet?

          A promise from Melon means nothing.

        • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          471·
          18 days ago

          You’re pretending as if he’s just honest and this is just the most reasonable ways of doing things.

          You’re completely ignoring the intentional misrepresentation of the capabilities of the technology. The main point of the robots is to be autonomous, which they’re not.

          It’s like if I were making some waterproof product and then made a huge presentation in which I have to avoiding getting any water on the product, while pretending they’re immersed in water.