[lazysheepherd]

Have you even watched the announcement? Has anyone commenting here did?

He clearly said the bot v1 won't do more than carrying simple things and will be super slow and weak. It will only have very basic grasping hands, even likely with 3 fingers.

It will be what grasshopper was to Falcon 9.

And about autonomous driving, Tesla autopilot seems to be almost as good as Waymo, except with pure vision. And I'd bet a great sum Tesla will move faster forward.

[fragmede]

which, anyone naysaying bot v1 doesn't see it. Think about moving a dishwasher. Up and down stairs, over and across pathways which are just a little too narrow for the furniture dolly so it keeps riding into the dirt. The target market for v1 is going to be slim, because I bet it won't be cheap. But it will be endlessly useful, and doesn't need to solve really hard general AI grade robotics problems, just some computer vision things, and without the self-driving car crashing penalty.

The question is: how much? Price it too high and the market just isn't there. Furniture dolly's don't have the same cachet as sports cars. I'm hopeful, because the technology is so close.

[qaq]

Just based on novelty factor and number of millionaires in the world if it's 50-80K they prob can sell more than they can make

[perryizgr8]

> Tesla autopilot seems to be almost as good as Waymo

Tesla's system is better, if only because you can buy it right now. Waymo has sold exactly zero of their cars, and they don't even have a plan to do that any time soon.

[shawabawa3]

Waymo isn't a car manufacturer so of course they haven't sold cars

They're selling rides in phoenix though

[perryizgr8]

Yeah then what's the point? I can already order Uber and someone drives me. The main allure of self-driving is that I have my car, that drives me around, without involving anybody else.

[itsoktocry]

The point is self driving, and Waymo has superior tech.

[perryizgr8]

Not if it isn't available to buy. For that matter I have a highly advanced general super intelligence. You can't have it. I'm just using it to solve my kid's math homework.

[freemint]

As long as I can rent it to solve the homework of my children which are in your class that's fine.

In fact if you feel comfortable it gets everything right and doesn't kill people in situations where humans don't please consider extending to a larger area of homework until you feel comfortable letting it carry out PHD level research assignments.

[shawabawa3]

Tesla let you pay for full self-driving, but they don't let you buy it. You get a glorified lane-assist.

We'll see who gets there first, my money's on Waymo. Once they do i'm sure they'll license it to car manufacturers