But the technology does actually work.

You don’t come up with an idea, announce it to the world, and then start figuring out how to implement it.

I honestly don’t see an issue with it. These robots aren’t for sale, there’s no estimated sale date, nor are they likely in production in any meaningful sense. Yes, he gave a price range, but that’s obviously aspirational and not confirmed seeing as there’s no expected release date whatsoever.

From the video I watched, it seemed obvious the robots were limited to a handful of interactions, such as:

• hand gift bag to person - it certainly seemed to go through a certain routine each time, but the person seemed to be able to point at the one they want
• rock paper scissors
• fill and hand drink to someone (didn’t see it in the video)
• dance according to some choreography

There certainly seemed to be some AI happening (i.e. detect which bag, let go of gift, etc), but it seemed like a very on-rails experience.

And I got that from watching it live, not looking at someone dissect what was going on. Having a handler there to push the robot into one of a handful of pre-programmed routines seems absolutely reasonable.

Have you seen humans drive? Now imagine them driving with significant visual and steering input latency, distorted wide angle cameras, and the lack of steering and acceleration feedback. Unless they are used to sim racing, I bet most people would drive worse than Tesla’s FSD if done remotely.

And I only need human interaction every few days. Take that AI… :)