Optimus Competition

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1758275183985451059

 

[Buckminster]

I don't intend to watch:

 

[Buckminster]

A very informative article by Warren Relich

This guy is a serial founder , Archer Aviation which has failed to deliver since IPO , stock price halved

His management team are not engineers , just smooth talkers and 90 % Archer Aviation departures , he might be similar to Trevor M….

 

[jeewee3000]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1758275183985451059

Interesting post with a great list. Also the poster tweets pics of all the different bots.

We should really hold a yearly Humanoid Bot Cage match to keep up with the progress on different bots.

(Robot Wars 2.0 ? But more exciting than robo-lawnmowers trying to flip each other over)

 

[jeewee3000]

Went down the rabbit hole so for future reference I decided to post these. All credit goes to https://x.com/CernBasher?s=20

 

[jeewee3000]

And the rest of them.

 

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1767914084509593985

More in thread

 

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1768300025984225429

 

[heltok]

Interesting thread:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1768255641758654773

 

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1768613096266809722

 

[Buckminster]

Tesla is getting some serious Optimus competition from nVidia. The robotics part of their presentation starts here, but it's a bit long.

The relevant section and some discussion here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1769860044324319658

Humanoid robots as a topic is just like AI before it. Every tech company wants to do it. Most will fail. Some will succeed.

 

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1775602926066507936

Interesting, maybe they should keep things simple this time. Perhaps a robodog with a iPad for a head.

 

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1776035029870657688

 

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1778098083425079606

 

[heltok]

 

[heltok]

Learning from Tele Operation works:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1780263497584230432

 

[heltok]

 

[Buckminster]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1789931753974517820