[HN Gopher] Tesla Bot can walk slowly and pick up stuff now
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       Tesla Bot can walk slowly and pick up stuff now
        
       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2023-05-16 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | abudabi123 wrote:
       | Tesla "Optimus" Bot needs to catwalk the fashion house offerings
       | on regular basis and compete in trade skill Olympics.
        
       | ALittleLight wrote:
       | I had long assumed the Tesla Bot was a joke or a gimmick or a
       | lie. If Tesla ships a humanoid robot in the next few years I'm
       | going to massively downgrade my own credibility with myself.
        
         | grecy wrote:
         | Obviously timelines are a massive miss, but I think you'd have
         | to be a bit crazy to bet against anything Elon's big companies
         | say they're going to do.
         | 
         | Outright best selling car in Europe in Q1 2023. (Model Y)
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         | Best selling non-pickup in the US in Q1 2023. (Model Y)
         | 
         | Re-usable rockets that have completed 200 successful missions
         | and the launch and landing are so common-place they're not even
         | news.
         | 
         | 1.5 million Starlink customers.
         | 
         | Starship progressing, integral part of the new moon landing
         | plans.
         | 
         | They are consistently doing things that "experts" said couldn't
         | be done.
        
           | JohnFen wrote:
           | Musk isn't magic or genius. He's had more failures than
           | successes, like everyone else.
           | 
           | I can only think of two successes, Tesla and SpaceX (and I
           | think I'm being generous by including SpaceX because it isn't
           | a success _yet_ )
        
           | kevviiinn wrote:
           | How about hyperloop, for example
        
           | recursv_thnkng wrote:
           | Best selling non-pickup in US is a pretty broad category. Do
           | you mean the "high end luxury" segment or a more narrow EV
           | segment? I have a hard time believing Tesla is outselling
           | Toyota and Hyundai
        
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