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0 pointsiancmceachern2y ago0 comments

Intuitive's Da Vinci has been doing it commercially for 20 years....in surgury

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Please don't mistake progression for completion.

And, I don't think comparing the two is logical, for price (Da Vinci is $2,000,000), end goal (the 500kg Da Vinci will never walk across the room and pick up a box), or even degrees of freedom.

FireBeyond2y ago

> And, I don't think comparing the two is logical, for price (Da Vinci is $2,000,000)

What's the over-under on the $35K CyberTruck ever making it to market, instead of vague handwaving "sometime towards the end of 2025, maybe"?

angoragoats2y ago

You must have missed the memo that the $35k Cybertruck is now the $60,990 Cybertruck (this is the standard-range, available in 2025 model). You will never be able to buy one new from Tesla for anywhere close to $35k, and the fact that they announced the price as $35k _and took customer money_ based on that should, IMHO, result in financial penalties and jail time for the executives involved.

nomel2y ago

I'm sorry, what does the CyberTruck have to do with the conversation, or their fairly obvious progression in actuation, or progression in making a nice humanoid platform for machine learning use, or Da Vinci?

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angoragoats2y ago

> And, I don't think comparing the two is logical, for price (Da Vinci is $2,000,000), end goal (the 500kg Da Vinci will never walk across the room and pick up a box), or even degrees of freedom.

How much does a Tesla robot cost and where can I buy one?

iancmceachernOP2y ago

You don't know what they're working on. If anyone can design a robot that does that, it's them, or Boston dynamics

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nomel2y ago

Please don't mistake progression for completion.

And, I don't think comparing the two is logical, for price (Da Vinci is $2,000,000), end goal (the 500kg Da Vinci will never walk across the room and pick up a box), or even degrees of freedom.

FireBeyond2y ago

> And, I don't think comparing the two is logical, for price (Da Vinci is $2,000,000)

What's the over-under on the $35K CyberTruck ever making it to market, instead of vague handwaving "sometime towards the end of 2025, maybe"?

angoragoats2y ago

nomel2y ago

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angoragoats2y ago

> And, I don't think comparing the two is logical, for price (Da Vinci is $2,000,000), end goal (the 500kg Da Vinci will never walk across the room and pick up a box), or even degrees of freedom.

How much does a Tesla robot cost and where can I buy one?

iancmceachernOP2y ago

You don't know what they're working on. If anyone can design a robot that does that, it's them, or Boston dynamics

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