First, a quick lesson in recent history if youre not familiar with the story.
Musk often posts videos of Optimus, but theyve been underwhelming, to say the least.
The technique here is called teleoperation, and has been used in robotics since the 1940s.
GIF of a new video showing the robot Astribot, which includes a note that there’s “no teleoperation,” the embarrassing trick Musk used to make Tesla’s Optimus operate in January.Gif: Astribot / YouTube
Essentially someone moves their own hand and the robot mimics the movement.
One example is a new video from Chinese robot maker Astribot.
And its not just Astribot.
A video released by Elon Musk in January, with a red arrow annotation showing the teleoperator of the robotGif: Tesla / Gizmodo
Figure co-founder Brett Adcock explained thevideo on X, The video is showing end-to-end neural networks.
There is no teleop.
Also, this was filmed at 1.0x speed and shot continuously.
Screenshot: Astribot /YouTube
But at least he helped provide a public service by increasing transparency in the robotics space.
Nobody wants to get caught fudging a demo.
Thats the kind of thing that makes people incredibly reluctant to trust you in the future.
At least when Musk brought out a human dancing in a robot suit everybody knew it was fake.
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