The Rundown: Tesla shifts gears for Optimus training


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The Rundown: Tesla has shaken up its Optimus robot training strategy, ditching motion-capture suits and VR headsets in favor of a vision-only approach using video recordings of human workers performing tasks, Business Insider reports.

The details:This methodology aligns with Tesla’s self-driving car development, using massive video data to train neural networks for adaptable behaviors.Workers wear custom helmet-mounted rigs with five in-house cameras, capturing detailed hand and finger movements from multiple angles.

Leadership of the program transitioned to Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s AI director, after former Optimus chief Milan Kovac stepped down. Experts note video-based learning could let Optimus generalize skills, but warn it may lack the physical feedback that comes from direct teleoperation.

Why it matters: This shift, insiders say, could let Tesla scale data collection faster, reflecting Elon Musk’s belief that AI learns best through cameras — a principle already powering Tesla’s self-driving tech. The real question: can it capture enough richly annotated video for a robot to master a wide range of household and industrial tasks?
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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