Tesla releases updated video showing off the amazing capabilities of its autonomous learning robot Optimus

Tesla, the company known as the maker of its S3XY series of electric vehicles, released an update video showcasing the capabilities of their humanoid robot Optimus, including adapting to changing environmental conditions. The new video, titled "Tesla Robot Update | Sorting and Stretching," shows how far development of the two-legged robot has progressed since its announcement in 2021. At the 2021 launch event, a real person in a robot costume performed an awkward dance, only to be interrupted by Elon Musk saying, "Okay, thank you!" Now, Optimus can automatically calibrate its performance through vision and joint position encoding. arms and legs to accurately position their limbs in space. Once properly calibrated, the robot can more efficiently learn a variety of tasks, such as automatically sorting squares by color and repositioning squares when they aren't placed correctly on a pallet. Additionally, when a human intervenes and moves some blocks, the robot can adapt and reposition items, just as it was trained to do. Tesla said in the video that the machine's neural network runs entirely on the machine, using only vision. The description says the neural network is trained end-to-end with video input and outputs control signals.

The approach is similar to the so-called fully autonomous driving features the company is trialling across its passenger car range. In May, CEO Elon Musk said in comments on the X that version FSD 12 would roll out when the system is run end-to-end by artificial intelligence, from image inputs to steering, braking and acceleration outputs. In addition to showcasing the robot's ability to learn a variety of simple, repetitive tasks, the update video also gives us a glimpse into Optimus's balancing abilities, including stretching on one foot after "a long day at work" and greeting enthusiasts with a faceless "Namaste" ". In a previous video from May of this year, Tesla showed off their robot's ability to walk, remember its environment, pick up items, and put them down. When first announced in 2021, Optimus was promoted as a machine designed to do dangerous, repetitive, or boring jobs that people didn't like to do. Technical details at the time revealed the humanoid robot would be 5 feet 8 inches tall, weigh 125 pounds, and have a top speed of 5 miles per hour, so "you could get away from it and probably be able to subdue it," Musk said.