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Optimus: The Tesla Bot Here’s What We Know…Or, At Least Been Shown

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Last year He teased the Tesla robot at the same event by calling an actor in a suit to come on stage, but this time the real robot walked onto stage by itself, unconnected to any power source or stabilizer for the first time. Most of those components ported quite easily over to the bot’s environment.

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For Better or Worse, Tesla Bot Is Exactly What We Expected

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We’ve designed it using the same discipline that we use in designing the car, which is to design it for manufacturing, such that it’s possible to make the robot at high volume with low cost and high reliability. And it is expected to cost much less than a car—much less than $20,000 would be my guess. That’s incredibly important.…Optimus

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. Not only were development costs absorbed in company overhead, but there was no markup to pay, as there would have been inf the chips had been built by another company. When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. At a press event on Monday, Oregon’s governor, Ted Kulongoski, was talking up Nissan’s previously announced partnership with the state. In most conversions cost is about the same because of needless weight.

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Senate Bill Seeks to Tariff Chinese Vehicles Out of Existence

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manufacturing advocacy group urged Biden to block low-cost Chinese autos and parts from Mexico. The introduction of cheap Chinese autos - which are so inexpensive because they are backed with the power and funding of the Chinese government — to the American market could end up being an extinction-level event for the U.S.

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