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·
    23 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·
      23 days ago

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

      Now imagine that’s your job 🤦

      • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        471·
        23 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.

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        23 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·
        23 days ago

        Is Tesla selling their fully autonomous driving cars yet?

        A promise from Melon means nothing.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      647·
      23 days ago

      They’re not marketing them as something they’re not. They’re marketing them as something they will be…

      I mean that’s probably false also, but my point stands.

      It’s incredibly misleading to just omit the fact that they’re remote controlled but misleading is very on-brand for Tesla.