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Tesla’s optimus hits snags in hands, suppliers as scale-up begins

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margalabargala · 1790357453 · focus · HN ↗
Other issues aside, "several hundred a week" is pretty impressive. They are either going to start finding jobs for the robots to do, or else have a glut of robots on their hands.
1. specialist · 1790357930 · focus · HN ↗
  Ages ago, a friend worked in a testing lab. When asked about the work, he replied:
  "It's chimp work. But chimps are too expensive, so they have us do it."
2. ben_w · 1790359508 · focus · HN ↗
  If they could sell all of them, they'd still only be the third biggest supplier.
  Other players took the idea and did it better.
3. TYPE_FASTER · 1790359530 · focus · HN ↗
  The Elon vs. Zuck cage match might just happen after all.
4. bryanlarsen · 1790361784 · focus · HN ↗
  And several days to learn a task? Is that supposed to be a dis? In 2026 with reinforcement learning maybe it is, but darn that seems super quick to me.
  1. margalabargala · 1790361938 · focus · HN ↗
    Either you didn't understand my comment or I'm not understanding yours, but no, there was nothing in my comment meant as a diss.
    bryanlarsen · 1790367722 · focus · HN ↗
    It's from the original article. I replied to yours, because it's the same style of comment.

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