Were Tesla’s Optimus Robots actually Autonomous (or Remote-Controlled by Humans)?

In this video we investigate whether Tesla's Optimus Robots were controlled by autonomous AI or teleoperated / remote-controlled by humans.

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00:45 - What were the Optimus Robots doing?
03:25 - Were these Robots Autonomous or Remote-Controlled?
10:35 - What does this mean for the Future of Autonomous Robots?

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[noway]

No way they are autonomus, they are Teleoperated

[JameBond.]

In my opinion this is just another bit of Elon's vaporware that isn't ready to market yet but he wants to make AI look like a godsend or miracle worker in the hopes it drives up his stock, and something like a pay raise for himself. Based on Elon's past lies about prices i'd guess if he manages to release this thing it will be much later than the 2026 mark he set and there's probably going to be some "production issues" that delay it either forever or until much later and if it does release it will cost a lot more than 20-30k im thinking 70-100k based on boston dynamics prices.

[WillBurns]

It's an easy to figure out question - Yes, they were tele-operated except in situations when they could be doing basic tasks (walking to a mark or dancing in a closed box) - However, the Occam's Razor is straight up - It's a loud after-party and there is no way they figured out how to get the robot to hear individual voices in a bass blasting club environment.

[jason_v]

Is this video being serious? Of course they're not autonomous, lol.

[cherubinth]

Tesla has Teleoperation, they showed it. There is nothing that would prevent them from teleoperating them as well.

[bci]

Sure "mostly" remote controlled, if I wrote with actual LLM, even pretty good ones don't be able to have human like conversation.

A number of changes to the robot only make sense when you consider the telepoperation. Including the gen 3 hand that can Vulcan salute which was also demoed at the event on whay sems a blue tinted screen. Or possible holographic display, but then someone would mention if it wasn't just a screen.

[YoStu]

They are able to create these robots but not to change their teleoperator voices to something a bit more believeable. Even that would have been more believeable if all of them had the same voice but now it's clearly different people controlling their robots.

[foxgeist]

Well seeing as how hes announced them to be hitting the market for around 20k, and they are not being marketed as such, I would logically say no they are not controlled remotely. If they are, itll be marketed as such. Read it on the box etc etc. The ones at the presentation? Probably for quality control and optimal performance for media attention they were being operated remotely. Hard to say yes or no until we see if they are indeed being shipped to peoples houses, and they are autonomous or not upon inspection. That would be a marketing lawsuit from hell, so it's going to say somewhere if its remote operated or autonomous.

[jordanhenshaw]

A lot of this argument is just "It's too good to be AI, " which is not a valid argument. But at the end, the argumentation gets better. I do think these are remote controlled because that is the simplest explanation absent a claim to the contrary by Tesla.

[sheikhakbar]

Aurélien Géron, the author of numerous books on AI and machine learning—books that many college students have likely encountered—tweeted that this might be yet another instance of Elon Musk's usual grifting. As a non-expert in the field, but someone who follows it closely, I would trust Aurélien Géron over Musk, who has a long track record of grifting, making hyperbolic promises, and under-delivering.

[benjiebarker]

check out dirty tesla yotuber video "hanging out with optimus..." robot actually says not completely autonomous and controlled by human - at 7:35

[coolcat]

Elmo Mollusk stating an "80% chance" that we'll be able to control AI is such a stupid attempt at exaggerating the capabilities of AI. LLMs appear to be clever, and they have astounding capabilities compared to what AI used to be able to accomplish, but LLMs are anything but actually clever and Elmo will not live to see any AI that will have to potential to threaten him. What an audacious fraudster.

[benjiebarker]

the optimus robot itself said they are not fully autonomous and are controlled by remote operators. still cool to see the movements of optimus, you really believe it may be a person in optimus until you see the motors in its waist. i want a girl version, with naughty AI lol

[jasonk]

NO. Thank you and good night. Be sure to tip your waitress.

[Fiilis]

So basically they are walking chatgpt moved by some people on their pc. LOL what a failure lmao

[mipmipmipmipmip-vx]

Tesla AI is going nowhere, any advantage they had is being caught up by all other players. The CEO is on twatter all day, employees are probably just adding lines of code to hit the random PKI for as long as their salary is paid out

[utsiderkryptw]

Human assisted, another Elon Musk overhyping and overselling scam.

[MrOraenji]

This video is not going to age very well.

[hfislwpa]

Only thing I disagree is "Elon's AI is behind everyone else's" meanwhile Tesla self driving is by far the largest at scale AI deployment in production today 😅
I think for these bots you could tell when pouring a drink he couldn't remember the name of the freaking drink hahaha