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KidKilobyte t1_iqoja05 wrote

Before the presentation the conventional wisdom is this would all be hype and no real reveal. Now it is here and while not better than Boston Dynamic it is far better than had been expected. Lots of people are saying other companies have been doing this for 20 years. BUT, those companies didn't just give all their secrets for Tesla to build on. Some is open source I'm sure, but most of this was developed inhouse in a year. The real test will be what a presentation looks like with another year of work. Unlike self-driving cars, it may much easier to see and gauge the amount of progress year to year and whether this is really going to lead to something. As others have mentioned, the real progress not really caught by the general public, is not whether it can walk at all, but how much it has to be pre-programmed and how much it is just learning to do for itself and following commands.

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