I think Elon is lying to everyone again. He claims the tesla bot will be able to work a full day on a 2.3kwh battery. Full load on my mediocre Nvidia 3090 doing very simple AI inference runs up about 10 kwh in 24 hours. Mechanical energy expenditure and sensing aside, there is no way a generalized AI can run a full workday on 2.3kwh.
Now, you say that all the inference is done server side, and streamed back in forth to the robot. Let's say that cuts back energy expense enough to only being able to really be worrying about mechanical energy expense and sensing (dubious and generous). Now this robot lags even more than the limitations of onboard computing, and is a safety nightmare. People will be crushed to death before the damn thing even senses what it is doing.
That all being said, the best generalist robots currently still only have 3-6 hour battery life, and weigh hundreds of pounds. Even highly specialized narrow domain robots tend to max out at 8 hours with several hundreds of pounds of cells onboard. (on wheels and flat ground no-less)
When are people going to realize this dude is blowing smoke up everyone's ass to inflate his garbage company's stock price.
Don't get me started on "full self driving". Without these vaporware promises, why is this stock valued so much more than Mercedes?
!banbet TSLA 150.00 2m