Tesla has now revealed its most detailed video of Optimus, the company’s robot designed to imitate human actions. The robot is captured on camera cleaning, cooking, and building things, all in a graceful and precise manner. You need to empty the trash, sweep with a broom, vacuum, tear off some paper towel, stir a pot, open cabinets, and draw the curtains. Robots in production environments are also observed carrying around and placing a Model X forelink on a dolly.
The difference in this demonstration is found both in the number of tasks and in the technology supporting them. Tesla achieved a main advancement in AI development by using a single neural network for all of the actions. Instead of human intervention, the robotic model studied tasks from films of people acting them out. With this approach, people quickly and reliably become good at new skills.
Only recently, Tesla’s Vice President of Optimus explained the landing in a post on the social network X (previously Twitter). They recently announced Optimus can now learn by watching human videos. Kovac pointed out that along with the process, many new types of assistant skills have emerged, all triggered by spoken or typed commands in language.
The plan is to work with Optimus using footage found online and let him learn from playing against himself in both real and simulated battles. Because of this progress, Tesla is bringing the long-hoped-for idea of adaptable humanoid robots closer to realization.