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Originally Posted by EvoFire
Is the Tesla bot really at that level though? I haven't followed the whole bot thing so I can't comment how viable Tesla's version actually is.
I agree for cutting edge technology, first to market isn't going to guarantee you a win, if anything you are showing people where the improvements need to be and when they roll out their own version it'll have overcome some of the challenges the first-to-market faced. I'm not sure honestly if this is the way forward yet, especially in manufacturer where purpose built robots I think are way better suited for those jobs. Bots would be for open ended tasks which frankly I don't think we are quite there yet.
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No one not under NDA knows exactly how far Tesla has gone with its bots.
But from tidbits of Elon and ppl who had been demo'd Optimus V3 (the one that is going into production. Anything you can find online now is only up to V2) is the follow:
It has human-like hands capable of carrying out actions that require fine hand manipulation (which is a lot... we as human don't think of it, but it's super hard for bots)
Other physical capability is limited similar to an average person (lifting load, running speed... etc), or maybe slightly under. This is purposely done to ensure safety where Tesla Bots won't suddenly become terminators and an average person can overpower it in the worst case scenario.
Now the learning: with its FSD-derived AI, it can recognize our surroundings (enviro, things and person) as well as to reason any particular in that surrounding. Elon has stated that Optimus V3 learns by either copying what you do (you do a demo, it thinks about what's behind it and repeats the same), you tell it what to do (and its NN/LLM would reason the given action and parameters) or you tell it to learn how to do something online and replicate it at home (think Matrix-style skill loading).
Ultimately, no need to go into programming say how much power to deliver in any of its motors/actuators (that's what you need to do with BD dog for specific tasks). For example, you want it to take clean dishes out of dishwasher. It'd reason that it's to take them out. The materials can be either metal, glass, plastic or ceramics. Thus it'd decide by itself the necessary torque to apply in any portion of its body and put where they belong as one'd usually organize things in cabinet in a particular pattern.
From ppl who have seen V3 demos, they all say it's incredible and no one would remember Tesla was even a carmaker in the future because it'd be known for its robots.