Musk's Optimus robot is controlled by a guy in a sensor suit. Of course.

[Klarkashton]

It was obvious just by looking at all the hand gestures and conversation the thing was making.

This is an old school flim-flam.

I'll go out on a limb and guess that the robo taxis are controlled by people as well.

[Think. Again.]

1. You're right, it was very obvious, and I'm sure the taxis were just glorified RC cars.

[edhopper]

2. Of course

It even says, "hmm" and "uh".
Like the self driving car, another Musk scam.
Surprised people here still think he is anything but a con artist.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Who is surprised by this?

[BootinUp]

9. I gave up trying educate about Musk here. Nt

[duncang]

4. I wondered about a few things.

Would the robots do as well on an uneven surface? How easily do they fall over. They kept the crowd back to make sure no one touched them. I know the crowd would probably swarm them if they didn’t. Would one of them be able to get back up? All of that has to be figured out before there’s any chance of actually being usable.

When it comes down to it I don’t understand why it’s so important to have them bipedal. That goes for any company. I can see in some cases it works and I guess it makes them more exciting. It just seems a tri-wheel setup would be easier, more stable, and a lot cheaper for domestic use unless you had stairs. But even then I’m sure they could figure out something.

[Klarkashton]

5. Having a guy at your house controlling the thing

Would get expensive after a while too.

[WarGamer]

6. fact... or is it an opinion?

[Klarkashton]

7. Look it up. Widely reported.

[WarGamer]

10. got it...

here's a link for the OP

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/14/tesla-optimus-bots-were-controlled-by-humans-during-the-we-robot-event/

[Ilikepurple]

11. I'm new at this fact or opinion stuff

Let’s see, a report from the intercept is presumed false until some semi arbitrary smell test is passed, but a media event by Musk showing breaking technology is presumed true. I just need to know where the burden of proof lies in each of these posts. Perhaps for the sake of clarity, you can also let us know what BOP standard we must satisfy for each of our posts.

[BootinUp]

14. According to an article in LAT, Tesla will not

Respond to questions about it.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-10-15/tesla-optimus-bots-were-remotely-operated-at-cybercab-event

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/reports-teslas-prototype-optimus-robots-were-controlled-by-humans/

[Ilikepurple]

17. No need to when the charade already had its desired effect

[BootinUp]

8. Musk knows film flam like nobody else. Nt

[lame54]

12. How high did it drive his stock?

[Klarkashton]

13. The bankers and other dimwits that rule the world were

Soooo impressed. I suppose the have never seen "great moments with Mr Lincoln" at Disneyland.

[jmowreader]

15. I can see some advantages to this in an industrial setting

Let's say you run a company that works with Very Dangerous Chemicals. Let's say it's hydrogen sulfide - watch this video to see how lethal this gas is.

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This is also a good H2S video:

If you had one of these Musk Robots in your maintenance department you could send it into the danger area to work while the employee stands outside - like, way the hell outside it, say on the outside of the fenceline - controlling it with a sensor suit. Hydrogen sulfide isn't going to kill your robot, and you get the work done without endangering your staff.

This, of course, is not what Mr. Musk wants to sell these for.

[edhopper]

18. There are better designed

radio controlled robots for that work

[ThoughtCriminal]

16. More old school than most realize - 250 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine constructed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent. For 84 years, it was exhibited on tours by various owners as an automaton. The machine survived and continued giving occasional exhibitions until 1854, when a fire swept through the museum where it was kept, destroying the machine. Afterwards, articles were published by a son of the machine's owner revealing its secrets to the public: that it was an elaborate hoax, suspected by some, but never proven in public while it still existed.