Reminds me of the scene from Robocop 2 when they are introducing new robocop models and one literally rips his helmet off and his skull just screams. As a kid I found it both funny and scary at the same time.
this post was submitted on 08 Dec 2025
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This is something that can happen with an autonomous robot if it was trained via imitation learning, which is one of the common ways of doing things when using transformers, and transformers are in vogue right now.
But knowing how tech demonstrations usually work, it's much more likely that this is actually just a robot being remote controlled by another human.
Yeah, Elon's tech demos are usually remote controlled
This is why I know Elon won't get that ridiculous bonus. He has to sell a million of these robots.
What is even the point of these robots? Like, will he provide the operators as well? Do I have to employ someone to work my robot? Am I supposed to use a robot as a proxy? I don't get what's being sold.
The idea is that a robot + guy in india to run it is cheaper than hiring and American
What's being sold is the illusion that the robots are completely autonomous based on AI or something.
Buy it now, get the full AI self-walking update in ~~two~~ ~~three~~ ~~seven~~ ~~fifteen~~ some years.
It worked for Tesla cars, so why should the same strategy not work on the same idiots with robots?
The robots are supposed to be autonomous, not driven by an operator, but no one can make robots except Boston Dynamics and even they have struggled.
Even if they aren't autonomous you could argue that the dexterity of these bots could be very useful for a human operator to work in a hazardous environment where the human being present directly is harmful.
Now selling them as fully autonomous while pulling off an Amazon checkout is total bullshit.
There's a singular perfectly awesome use case for a robot you can drive as your proxy. Here it is:
Of course, the chances on Elmo being able to deliver anything even approaching this minimum level of usefulness are well into the negatives.
Given that his cars break from rain, and his rockets always explode, I wouldn’t put much stock in these, no.
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Thr question is can that thing jack me off and can it look much less creepy?
Did you see the water spray out the bottle at the end? You're losing it if it grabs anything
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Why it look like whoever was controlling it just took their headset off? User takes viser off robot falls from lack of user controls? Tell me this was not actually just another mechanical turk.
It was AI -- Actually Indians
Anonymous Indians since we've never met them
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The Indian operator just finished his shift
He meant AI as in Affordable Indians
https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/the-company-whose--ai--was-actually-700-humans-in-india.html
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My optimist: surely Musk will not be able to get away with being caught in this obvious lie.
My realist: he's gonna get away with it again.
The optimistic take is that no one is that stupid.
The realistic take is that musk fanboys will claim that the robot is so advanced, that it thinks it's alive and mimics someone taking his headset off, because it has seen it.
I'm sure we'll see, "the AI was trained on human operator recordings - which unfortunately included headset removal actions, Tesla is now working to filter that from the model".
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Remember those Tesla solar roof tiles? Fake. Made by a prop company in LA.
Tesla solar still exists, but they just install typical panels, because PUTTING SOLAR TILES IN THE SHADY ROOF SIDE WAS STUPID.
I’ve seen a local installation of the tiles. I asked the contractor all about them as they went in. They are real.
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The most recent Defunctland video made me believe we might actually see full autonomous robots performing pretty rudimentary tasks while looking humanoid in the relatively near future. This uh... Isn't that.
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Remember cyberguy? I like the energy.
With his delicate all these robots move it's nice to see one throwing some weight around. And it's holding up really well, you'd assume a connection would come loose after the first swing.
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Elon Musk once again proving that he's more of a Justin Hammer than a Tony Stark (who was already a problematic figure, but at least had talent and SOME sense of right and wrong)
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Everything about Elon Musk is a scam.
I was so confused, I thought it had accidentally done a Nazi salute while removing the headset and then it shut down as some sort of rule.
I had no idea that instead of a person standing there doing whatever a person controls it remotely. What a great idea for nuclear waste clean up, fucking terrible for handing out water.
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Upside: Service workers can now work from home
Reality: Prisoners can and will be required to work as service workers from their prison cells.
I, for one, can't wait for the inevitable robot murder committed vicariously via a murderer controlling a robot from their cell.
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If I send in my robot does that mean I don't need to commute?
I want to see footage of the backroom where the controllers are located so badly. Imagine how silly it must look, just a room full of people wearing VR headsets while trying to make their movements look as robotic as possible.
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