Tesla Optimus Robot - Tesla AI Day 2022 In-Depth w/ James Douma

Part 1 in our In-Depth Tesla AI Day 2022 series with James Douma. We cover Optimus humanoid robot and Tesla's approach with actuators, joints, hardware, and software.

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[cyve]

High quality content like this being free feels almost illegal.

Thanks Dave + James!

[kstaxman]

James was his usual amazing self. His knowledge and understanding of everything relating to engineering and software is a rare and amazing talent. He's truly a treasure to have to help us in understanding what is going on with Tesla. Having you with your skills and knowledge asking questions and guiding the conversation is the icing on the cake. You are a great moderator and your patience and guidance only make James skills stand out more. There are many great folks here on YouTube that make videos on Tesla and SpaceX your's is certainly one of the best. Thanks to both you and James we have a much greater understanding of the incredible engineering that Tesla is giving the world. We live in amazing times and with you and James around we can even have a true understanding of what's happening. Can't wait for the upcoming videos with you two.

[bujin]

I'm such a fan of these James Douma episodes. It really makes he wish he had his own YouTube channel. I appreciate you both putting this together! Thank you!

[misteratoz]

I'm also impressed by james' casual knowledge of medicine and the human body...

[Steph]

Wrap up & overall comments at 1:20:00
Thanks for this recording James & Dave ❤️

[tslamars]

James apparently prepared before the talk. That's so appreciatable for such a machine learning expert.

[dr-k]

This is just what I had hoped for. Thanks James and Dave!

[klauszinser]

Now having seen the video up to min 55, I am fascinated by the mechanical engineering and kinematics knowledge of James. Well done Dave and James (and Tesla providing all the knowledge an information).

[andrewradford]

How good was this!
Can't wait for the next two.

[markchambers]

James is a fantastic person to interview on these subjects. In particular, you can observe his enthusiasm that is real. He is also one of the most knowledgeable advocates for Tesla, unintentionally or intentionally. I'm not discounting others, there are a few others, but James astounds me with his knowledge and enthusiasm. If I was Elon, I would look up James birthday and offer him a 2-3 day tour inside the workings of the AI and bot teams. Maybe a NDA would have to be involved for specific things, but I think James would be happier than a kid in the Willie Wonka Chocolate Factory. I guess the downside is it could ruin the interviews because it would be hard to define a line between offering his opinions and interpretations without leaking some proprietary information that Tesla doesn't really want out there, at least yet. It would be like "happy birthday James, but you can't talk about it".

[YR]

James Douma - AI / NN Expert
Also James Douma - part-time Robotics/Human Anatomy Expert

[Dm]

Man, listening to James is fascinating, love learning from him! Thanks Dave!

[joshgray]

Always great stuff! Just want to clarify: a point of motion (hinge, pivot, linear) does not equal a degree of freedom (DoF). Any active actuator is a DoF. The fingers are a great example. You have a single actuator at the proximal joint, as it moves the 2nd and third phalanx are able to move and are passively compliant (if on segment runs into something it stops then the next segment continues motion...all powered by the single actuator at the proximal / knuckle joint). It is a beautifully simple design, you get what looks like 3 DoF for the price of one! ;)

[jimcallahan]

What impressed me from this conversation is the tooling that Tesla is developing. It's kind of like SpaceX building Starbase, having the factory to build the rocket/robot is more impressive than the current iteration of the rocket/robot. But, in the case of the robot it is more simulation/design tools as well as the robot software. Optimus is at best at the Starhopper stage, "the watertower that flew", much, much more impressive stuff to come!

[kpot]

Absolutely the most fun I’ve had lately. Thanks much. 😊

[djnavari]

Amazing technical details. James is a polymath!!!😮

[casvanmarcel]

I feel like I should pay to see this content. Thanks for posting! I love you two.

[AtekomiTesuji]

The amount of work that went into the brand new actuator designs is staggering, and great explanation from James (I think he called this out a while ago as a key area to watch). Tesla will quickly get to a huge lead in these robots too, with big leads in actuators, AI software and mass manufacturing that will be hard to catch.

[andyfeimsternfei]

inductive charging in the feet will alow it to charge and run off external power sources when standing and working at workstations.

[trevorgough]

This is excellent, im actually learning how robots work..and it's all free, both riveting and great value.
Thanks dave and James.more please.