Elon Musk’s Tesla is promising to sell a humanoid robot. It could be the first of many.
Elon Musk’s Tesla is promising to sell a humanoid robot. It could be the first of many.
Can they be useful, or are humanoid robots an indulgent attempt to recreate ourselves?
musk also promised full self driving cars, and a mars colony by now
51ReplyDo we even know what he promised to all the women?
13ReplyA penis almost as big as his President's.
6ReplyA pony?
1ReplyA horse, that he wanted to offload anyway as he had a surplus of them from the ranches he purchased to cosplay as a rancher
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Stock goes down, elon makes promise he can’t keep to try and make it go up. Rinse and repeat.
36ReplyHe's always promising shit that never happens. He's just a stupidly wealthy pub bore.
31ReplyHe is a scammer, thats called a scam
22ReplyYeah, there's a loooooong list.
1ReplyHe's not wealthy. He has credit and morons willing to give it to him.
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Piss off, In 2016 Elon Musk promised full self driving would be ready by the end of 2017.
19ReplyI cringe when I remember that I parroted the then current expectations on self driving back then.
8ReplyI believed him too back then, usually if a CEO makes such a statement it's pretty solid. Because they are responsible to for instance stock holders.
How he can make all these false claims and promises, and still be rewarded by stock holder with a $55billion bonus, is a mystery to me, as I see it, he is liable towards both stock holders, and customers who bought stock or a Tesla under false pretenses. 0Reply
first of many
Humanoid robots exist. They just haven't yet found an application where the existing implementations are more-desirable than alternatives.
13ReplyNo no, they meant first of many unfulfilled promises.
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An Elon Musk promise is about as valuable as a pocketfull of lint.
9Replyi’m about to just filter out the word ‘Elon’ on voyager now. nobody fucking cares about this shithead
8ReplyIs this a feature on voyager? Can we filter based on terms?
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So they renewed their promise from… how many years ago with nothing to show for it?
6ReplyI'm sure it won't have any of the defects of the cyberdumpster.
3ReplyIf he's going for the Cybertruck look, they will probably come out like this:
9ReplyUnlike Imperial Storm Troopers, they sometimes hit their target.
Judging by Musk's previous styling choices, may I offer this?
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Just make cars that work and stick to it.
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