Comment by evan_a_a
5 hours ago
>2) The Tesla section is interesting. I'm not saying that you are wrong, just that their methods have not produced the promised results yet
The flaw in Tesla's engineering choice to rely on a camera based system for self driving is that it is extremely difficult to approximate human vision with cameras alone. The author also does not mention this and instead assumes that "camera == human eye" which is not true.
>3) Wireless humanoid robots is a bad platform because we don't have the hardware to support them. Both battery density and compute efficiency is too low currently to support freestanding robots. Rip Roomba - long live its legacy
Boston Dynamics already has Atlas, with a 4 hour battery life and the ability to self-swap. That is already better than a human since it can presumably work non-stop for its entire runtime. Plus battery technology and compute efficiency are both still improving.
Its hard to understand the articles argument for why cameras are correct when lidar systems are doing well