My reaction to the Tesla robot after working on robots for a decade (opens in new tab)

We also remember the claims teslas were going to pay themselves back as robotaxis, gigapress wasn't going to be producing 60+% scrap, tesla motors and controllers were special sauce that no other company could come near (lucid says hi), not to mention cybertrucks, telsa semi and tesla roadsters being vapourware...

Musk's advertising strategy with Tesla has been to keep telling a bigger lie. Telsa's full self-driving is neither full nor self. FSD doesn't work right. But that doesn't matter because the lie sure works. People keep buying in even after 9 years of false promises:

https://jalopnik.com/elon-musk-promises-full-self-driving-ne...

The Tesla bot is just the next lie. It doesn't matter if it never works right. It doesn't matter if it is perpetually "one year away". People will buy in, just like they did with FSD.

Yes. I remember how they said "he cant do self driving, people will die", and then he did self driving and people lost their heads. Plus the Lidar thing and plowing into huge obvious stationary objects.

Tesla robot moves like Asimo, very static "I have poop in my pants" walk. Little inverse kinematics, mostly looks like preprogrammed/pre learned moves that work only on known flat surface. Boston Dynamics Atlas it is not.

This seems to closer to hyperloop than to cars (and even there I wouldn't be that surprised if Cybertruck is not shipping in 5 years)