For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is What We Expected

> '…This means a future of abundance, a future where there is no poverty, where you can have whatever you want in terms of products and services. It really is a fundamental transformation of civilization as we know it.'

Good for you, Elon. Meanwhile, back on earth...

I wish this con man would give me my ‘fully autonomous driving’ that I paid so much for three years ago rather than make useless ‘robots’. Sigh.

Just five years ago, a robot that operates on its own power and can pick up a box without losing balance was a technological marvel. Boston Dynamics does it, but notice it still uses industrial suction pads, not robotic hands, and as far as we’ve seen it doesn’t operate autonomously yet. For a project this young the Tesla Robot seems like an amazing achievement, but the goalposts are always shifting in the public eye.

At some point, we've got to accept that Elon Musk is either lying, or delusionally optimistic when he talks about his future products.

Whether he's talking about fully self-driving cars, mars expeditions, The Boring Company, Neuralink, Teslas cargo trucks, or now this robot, his promises have been wildly unrealistic.

Whether it's lying or optimism, we should just stop paying attention to what he claims his companies can do, and instead take seriously what they actually do.

It’s an Aibo. Elon build an Aibo.

That Evan Ackerman “journalist” is just an anti-Elon hack.