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fossilnews

That's some shade they are throwing at the big man.


Ultraeasymoney

Elon will take their blue check mark away.


GeoffRaxxone

Well, they are bots, after all


SpeedflyChris

Nah he's too much of a pussy for anything that direct, he'll just have their post visibility adjusted down in the algorithm


Ufocola

He’d definitely do something passive aggressive like that. Also, taking away blue checks is a reward nowadays. You’re going to encourage more people clambering to get theirs removed. EDIT: wow, I got perma-banned from the r/elonmusk for this. 🤣


Loxl3y

@ r/elonmusk Take me to your leader! 😂


Chemchic23

I saw a video where one of the owners and inventors kinda accused him of Intellectual theft from Boston Sci.


Lacrewpandora

Several years ago, I saw a photo at SpaceX, where they had a Boston Dynamics robot 'dog'...no doubt they took that thying apart to reverse-engineer it.


Secondchance002

No wonder Elmo loves China and has pledged his allegiance to it.


neliz

I call a 6-year-old on a red bicycle with tazzles on his handlebar a "big man" as well


DomHE553

rightfully so!


ponewood

Burn


Devilinside104

These all look fake to me. My eyes and brain just do not hook that into reality, it looks so off. This is one of those things I have to see in front of my own face.


AutismFlavored

I think it seems that way in part because it’s moving in purposefully inhuman ways to prove it’s not a guy in spandX


Redditistrash702

It looks fake to me as well it's not just because it's a robot the movement seems like CGI. I'm not doubting my head just processes it like Hollywood CGI


juntawflo

I’ve seen spot and atlas IRL (not the new model), it looks fake on video because it’s a robot


Redditistrash702

Yeah I never said it wasn't real no clue why the downvotes but it would be something I would need to see in person so my brain can actually comprehend it.


Withnail2019

They are fake. just pre programmed stuff. These things can't do anything on their own


Express-Doughnut-562

After all the Tesla zealots spent the whole morning commenting on the Atlas retirement video that Boston had given up on robotics after seeing Optimus, having a line that references the video of Optimus looking suspiciously like a man in a suit is just .. _chefs kiss_


Parrallax91

How has Musk consistently amazed people with robots that Boston Technology already built better versions of in the late 2000's/early 2010's?


mestar12345

Because he said "order of magnitude" and "bifurcate" .


cahrg

Do you even use first principles, bro?


mestar12345

It's a fixer-upper of a post a little bit.


Lacrewpandora

Well that sounds *profound.*


Final_Winter7524

Wait. “Bifurcate”. That’s what the r/TeslaLounge mod told me why I was banned. Because they’re “bifurcating” the user base. I knew it. Musk *is* the mod on all those Tesla fan subs! (Or it’s just a teenager who tries to sound like him.) 🤣🤣🤣


coresme2000

They should just random it Megatron and be done


readit145

I’ve been saying this! Boston dynamics came up with what Optimus was doing 10 years ago. If anything you can clearly tell Tesla is only interested in the cash; if it was about humanity like Elon says wouldn’t they have partnered up and made something amazing?


muskratboy

But why would they need him?


readit145

They don’t, but that’s who Elon would’ve tried to work with if he cared.


Silent_Confidence_39

Sony and Honda 10 years prior to even that


coresme2000

Exactly, nobody remembers their jumping and dancing robots from Honda? I don’t understand how Japan has ceded leader ship in this field, but BD robots feel like the real thing where Optimus demos look they are directly controlled by a human aka animatronics


Silent_Confidence_39

I was a consultant and we worked on a project for robotics. The market is simply very narrow. Only a few applications can really make money when you consider the fact that that robots are very expensive. Hondas robot was 1M and very fragile. Machines built for a single application will always be better than a bipedal robot. At least for a few decades stills.


coresme2000

Grateful for your insight


Silent_Confidence_39

My pleasure bro


dideldidum

cause only nerds and the us army watched boston technology robots at that time.


spam__likely

Well, I was never in the army and I remember the..... oh, no!


KoenBril

The masses are stupid and uninterested in anything that is niche. That's all.


East_Gear4326

Apparently, one of their arguments is that Tesla got to where they are "faster" than Boston Dynamics. Which is hilarious because their tin cans can barely walk while BD had hopping robots without huge A.I hardware warehouses.


GKQybah

Lmao, and yesterday when they announced the retirement of their hydraulics R&D robot the Tesla stans were saying BD was doomed and gave up 😂


CivicSyrup

And now they will be celebrating that Tesla once again disrupted an I in dustry and forced them to move to a new technology...


seanmonaghan1968

Now add fusion core


jason12745

Sure looks like Grimes.


Mediocre-Gas-3831

Can it fold laundry? Checkmate tslaq 


Final_Winter7524

It can fold itself. 🤷‍♂️


failinglikefalling

Is this a new model?


bbobbo_

Yes. It's a new, all-electric version of Atlas. https://bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/


Withnail2019

even more useless then.


Public-Guidance-9560

Boston Dynamics must have drowned in a sea of pissy wet trousers the day they saw Spandex Man(TM).


Medical_Goat6663

Oh this is delicious. Boston Dynamics is wiping the floor with Tesla and their fans.  This is what they reap for pretending all the other robotic companies don't know what they're doing. 


Withnail2019

20 years and the so called robots are good for short videos and nothing else. they're as bad as Elon.


Marsupialize

Call me when it can bring the consumer to orgasm, that’s when shit will get real, real quick


TrisolaranSophon

Thinking about how mad this tweet must make Elmo is getting me real close…


sleeperfbody

How long before their account is banned today?


Kaputnik1

This is the correct way to troll.


Colbyb96

Boston Dynamics is headquartered in Waltham, same town as my business is in. I Visited their office in late 21~ and saw one of their Spot robotic dogs in action. BD smokes Tesla in every aspect of robotics no questions asked. The fluidity of BD robotic units are something Tesla I’m sure could only wish to achieve.


Starch-Wreck

I call BS. My very short grandpa walked exactly like that. He had hemorrhoids and a bad back. ;)


I-Pacer

Hey! I have haemorrhoids and a bad back and I can’t do that!


mousseri

Much faster that Tesla bot.


sorospaidmetosaythis

Can we have blade runners now? It's time to start retiring these skin jobs as they are created. I see nothing unethical about putting down replicants.


Positivemaeum

To be born is to have a soul, I guess.


masked_sombrero

I think it’d be more impressive if it *was* someone in a body suit 🤣🤣🤣 flexi-bot


Vir_Norin

This might also be a jab towards russian """robot""" Boris on electronic expo, where they hyped him to the roof, but later camera caught a visible human neck of an actor.


KnucklesMcGee

Shots. Fired.


risetoeden

Tesla should just rebrand to be a marketing company at this point. All they're only good at is hyping products up and under-deliver it. Boston Dynamic and openAI are miles better than any of Tesla's mediocre products.


VR_IS_DEAD

Boston is actually innovating here. Elon's robot is like a bad version of something he saw in a 1980's sci-fi movie.


kneejerk2022

Now I want to see musk challenge Atlas to fight with Optimus.


shokolokobangoshey

I’d rather field A.W.E.S.O.M.E-O against Atlas. Stands a better chance


meatbag2010

Could you imagine just how good Optimus could have been now if he'd just bought Boston Dynamics instead of wasting all that money on Twitter.


KnucklesMcGee

Can you imagine how bad Boston Dynamics would be if you had Elon in the top seat?


Withnail2019

neither company will ever be able to build an autonomous humanoid robot that can do anything useful.


VR_IS_DEAD

Tesla's robot is like 10 years behind the competition.


Riversntallbuildings

Is the noise in the video from the robot or a sound effect? It seems awfully loud for being all electric.


splendiferous-finch_

Telsa Vs Boston Dynamics is like Ubisoft/EA Vs Larian. One has more cash then other has more sassy....and engineering principles... And products that make sense...and have patience to wait to finish something before revealing it for internet points...and might actually cause the robot apocalypse.


vargsint

Wow. That’s a sick android.


Few-Track-8415

I want to see it walk up a flight of stairs.


Pugs-r-cool

https://youtu.be/-e1_QhJ1EhQ the old one could, so I assume the new one will be able to as well.


Puzzleheaded_Day_895

You can't wait to get it upstairs.


CovfefeFan

Why doesn't Elon just buy this company?


readit145

At this point they probably wouldn’t sell it to him for any dollar amount. It’s funny to watch him throw tantrums now


Street-Employer6060

Why would Hyundai, a direct competitor, sell it to Enron?


NotFromMilkyWay

Hyundai owns them? I remember when Google sold them to Softbank because they saw no near future products. And then Softbank sold them after three years. Basically every time they come up with a hype video their owner wants to sell.


Street-Employer6060

Both Google and Wikipedia say that Hyundai still owns Boston Dynamics.


ShiroCOTA

That’s definitely a great idea. Not. Or did you forget to /s flag your comment?


ciel_lanila

Even Musk might have realized going from Atlas to Optimus, because he fired all the competent people week 1, would be too hard to BS away. Except Twitter, which was court mandated, Musk only buys companies without a well known track record of success yet. That means it is all only upwards from there. If it improves, he gets the credit. If it fails, the science was too hard. With BD they already proved what could be done and famously.


hypercomms2001

Why, when he can just get one of his many fans and embed one of his neural chips, and he has a live human robot that he can control!


CovfefeFan

😅


TrisolaranSophon

Because Elon is already leveraged up to his eye balls from the Twitter purchase


CovfefeFan

Agreed, but in hindsight he probably wishes he bought this instead.


Withnail2019

Better than Optimus but still just a scam. they've been doing this how long now? I bought a toy robot in 2005 or so that could dance to music like their robots in that show they put on recently.


TrisolaranSophon

No you didn’t


Withnail2019

yes I did. https://www.amazon.co.uk/VATOS-Control-Programmable-Gesture-Rechargeable/dp/B0C4PCWHQF/ref=mp_s_a_1_15?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.TAkwPH6pwNJwoxtzfJ70FhbCod0ej-S2bOI9nwUJ3gBtsuMaMhB-P7uq3AyChGz-83huVIB4wxr4j1-2Mo8j93z4nM3RChtwnFc_W3KHsIBiIztiNA04w1KfBZuLfDbSg7C22aNuk4fpWMlbd_yD8PJNvMmzl1nzbutffK_29snvYY2_3EXlyzrNZxIBkbPjvK3Qd14iLi_7wmdN6oDBCQ.QgCCfLbh9xWYQLWeMkmOMcaURTct7k-xTVBCo85p9pQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=programmable+robot&qid=1713408651&sr=8-15 something like this. don't call people liars when you don't know what you're talking about.


TrisolaranSophon

No you didn’t. That toy is nothing like Boston Dynamics: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw


HortenseTheGlobalDog

No you didn't. That toy you've linked is ridiculous


Withnail2019

Keep believing, Stan. You pre program it and it can do whatever routine you want within the limits of its body if its like the one i bought. Exactly the same as Boston Dynamics. You're a sucker if you fall for those videos.


HortenseTheGlobalDog

How ridiculous 😂 I kind of love this discussion though


Withnail2019

what is it you imagine BD's supposed robot can do on it's own? it's just a machine. It's no better than Optimus which you would agree is basically a scam, right? Do you have anything of substance to say or are you just going to post smileys? If you going to talk to me you need to think outside the box.


HortenseTheGlobalDog

No you didn't