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The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by just_another_person@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] shapesandstuff@feddit.org 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

People are already jumping to defend it as "a preview on where technology is headed".

How would they know? Musk and his minions keep lying about their technology.

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Musk is a pathological liar

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 1 year ago

Only a couple years away man! Self driving cars, living on Mars, so close!

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

That's like if i made a presentation and showed back to the future 2 and said: well, that's how our hoverboards will look and function

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

How is this any different than fraudster Trevor Milton of Nikola showing footage of Nikola vehicles using gravity to go downhill, but pretending that they were a functioning concept and running on their own power?

[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

All that money and engineering to have a human still needed to do the job of a human lol.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Not sure why Elon didn't just call them 'Drones' instead of 'Robots' - since it's a given that drones are human controlled with varying levels of process automation now.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Didn't the Chinese already did this a few months back? XD

[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

They were humans pretending to be robots, these are actually robots that are being remotely controlled, rather than being fully autonomous.

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

It bugs me just saying "the Chinese" did it. It was the Chinese company Ex-Robot.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Lonnie is a liar. TLDR.