But the prototypes used “artificial intelligence” to control their walking.
    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      While they are and will continue to be a scam. It is at least a step up from a guy dancing around in a spandex suit like the announcement was

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    2 months ago

    Excellent way to get around labor laws. Have a robot controlled by a poor amuck in a low wage country and ignore the labor laws in the country of the robot.

    • Zron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      I could actually see this being useful for dangerous working environments like steelworks or inside nuclear facilities. As long as the control system is on a separate intranet that’s properly air gapped.

      You should still pay the operator their full wage though. The human still needs all of the technical knowledge to do the job, you’re just removing most of the physical risk.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        I like my idea for kaiju sized Rock-em, Sock-em Robots better. We could host robot battles between skilled karate practitioners and put them live on television.

        What, it’s been done already?

        Ah, crap.

    • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      About happening for years in Japan IIRC, but in a good way, especially with physically handicape people, they control robots to take order and serve dishes etc in restaurant. It allows people to work, be busy, earn money, etc.

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      At point I can’t but agree. I don’t give a shit about Tesla anymore. It doesn’t matter what “his” machines can do. His endgame is clearly a to have a complete controlled monopoly without any complications like “worker’s rights” to stop him.

      • MyOpinion@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        His end goal is the removal of human decency. He has lost the right to my money.