Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant in-person Cybercab presentation last week. The robots mingled with the crowd, served drinks, played with guests and danced inside a gazebo. What seems more surprising is that they could even speak. But it was mostly just a show.
Of course, it's obvious when you watch the videos of the event. If Optimus really were a completely autonomous machine that could immediately react to verbal and visual cues while talking, one-on-one, to human beings in a dimly lit crowd, that would be mind-blowing.
Assistant Robert Scoble posted that he had learned that humans were “remotely helping” the robots, and later clarified that an engineer had told him that the robots used ai to walk. stained electrek. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote in a note that the robots “relied on teleoperations (human intervention),” the outlet reports.
There are obvious clues to support these claims, such as the fact that all robots have different voices or that their responses were immediate, with gestures to match.
It doesn't seem like Tesla was doing everything it could to make anyone think that the Optimus machines were acting on their own. In another video that Jalopnik pointed toan Optimus voice jokingly told Scoble that “it might be something” when he asked how much he was controlled by the ai.
Another robot, or the human voicing it, told an assistant in a forced impression of a synthetic voice: “A human is helping me today,” adding that it is not completely autonomous. (The voice stumbled over the word “autonomous”).
Musk first announced Tesla's humanoid robot by bringing to the stage what was clearly a person in a robot suit, so it's no surprise that the Optimus (Optimi? Optimedes?) at last week's event were hyperbolic in their presentation. And the people who went didn't seem to feel upset or betrayed by it. But if you were hoping to get some idea of how far along Tesla is in its humanoid robotics work, the “We Robot” event was not the place to look.
