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Milan Kovac

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Optimus (Tesla Bot) Engineering @ Tesla

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Milan Kovac
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@aelluswamy summarized the past decade very well. When I hopped in my friend’s model S in 2015, it hit me in a weird way: that car was running software all around, had a nice big touch screen (finally, an actual “screen”), was receiving frequent feature updates over the air, and
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Milan Kovac
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2023 has been awesome for Optimus. We’ve moved from an exploratory prototype (Bumblebee/cee) to a more stable, Tesla-designed platform (Optimus Gen-1). We’ve improved our locomotion stack, frequently walking off-gantry without falls and with a faster, increasingly more
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Milan Kovac
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This is our fastest gait ever at ~0.6 m/s, > 30% speed boost since our last video in December. We’ve improved our vestibular system, our foot trajectory, and our ground contact logic. We’ve upgraded our motion planner, and made cuts to the loop latency across the bot. Optimus
@Tesla_Optimus
Tesla Optimus
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Getting my daily steps in
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Milan Kovac
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Over the past couple of months, our awesome manufacturing team has built more bots for us to work on, and collect AI data from! We’ve trained and deployed a neural net allowing Optimus to start doing useful tasks, such as picking up battery cells coming down a conveyor and
@Tesla_Optimus
Tesla Optimus
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Trying to be useful lately!
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Milan Kovac
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Everyday that same “wow” feeling hits me as I enter our lab and see all our bots in action. @julianibarz ’s AI team explores various neural net architectures, trains them on our world-class supercomputers, deploys them on several real-world humanoid robots and evaluates their
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Julian Ibarz
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TeslaBot will be able to do incredible in the near future. 10 years ago I deployed the first very deep learned vision model in production: 10 years later and deep learning can do so many new things. Imagine where we will be 10 years from now. I joined
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Milan Kovac
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Bruh…
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Milan Kovac
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Excited to share our latest bot ! Amazing new platform to build the future of humanoid robotics upon. Very proud of the teams who've all been hard at work to get this to happen :) This new generation, which is in effect the 3rd since we started the program less than 2 years ago,
@Tesla_Optimus
Tesla Optimus
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There’s a new bot in town 🤖 Check this out (until the very end)!
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Milan Kovac
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Increasingly complex tasks through teleoperation, to: - verify that our current hardware has the dexterity to do those tasks: now mostly SW/AI work - collect the data needed to train e2e neural nets to do it autonomously (just like with the colored blocks sorting/un-sorting
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Elon Musk
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Optimus folds a shirt
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Milan Kovac
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We’ve made quite some progress on the AI side! On our way to make Optimus help with repetitive, boring or dangerous tasks. Very proud of the teams.
@Tesla_Optimus
Tesla Optimus
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Optimus can now sort objects autonomously 🤖 Its neural network is trained fully end-to-end: video in, controls out. Come join to help develop Optimus (& improve its yoga routine 🧘) →
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Milan Kovac
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@NorthWallKing Update within a couple of weeks! Many things going on in parallel in the background.
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Milan Kovac
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And jokes aside, lot of respect for the engineering team doing the work at @Figure_robot . As an engineer, I know how challenging the journey is.
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Milan Kovac
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@MartinViecha @OpenskiesX Thanks @MartinViecha ! The team has been passionately working on bot-specific challenges, while leveraging existing work from many awesome vehicle hardware & software teams. That's why I believe Tesla is uniquely positioned to build this.
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Milan Kovac
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@kamalgupta09 Congratulations @kamalgupta09 for your awesome first year, it’s been fantastic so far building Optimus’ brain with you & the team! Neural nets that end up in a disruptive product in the making.
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Milan Kovac
1 year
@strangelove109 Yes, camera video & proprioception sensors data from Optimus
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@_milankovac_
Milan Kovac
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@mayemusk @elonmusk 10 years ago, I spent many weeks gathering and translating a lot of documentation proving I wasn’t a criminal, and would likely be useful to the US (degree transcripts, past employment, letters of recommendation etc.). I then had a 25% chance of being randomly selected to get a
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Milan Kovac
10 months
@bostonwatts @julianibarz I’ve sent you a message, check your inbox
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Milan Kovac
11 years
@SMerrells @ToddJLasance Absolutely Simon, and the whole team was amazing ! I hope I'll be surrounded by great people in my life. Congrats
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Milan Kovac
1 year
@philduan @karpathy 100% - neural net architectural changes seem to be commonly considered before first principle-based dataset inspection, perhaps perceived as less intellectually stimulating. More often than not, undesirable predictions can be traced back down to the latter.. “Become one with
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Milan Kovac
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@SMerrells probably best interpretation in spartacus: war of the damned, together with @ToddJLasance . Great actors, looking to seeing you
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@_milankovac_
Milan Kovac
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@RichardGarriott U7 is one of the best solo games ever made, especially when looked at in the context of the time it was made (super early 90s). Triggered my curiosity so hard as a kid and the main reason I got into programming. Shaped my life and career! Thank you @RichardGarriott .
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Milan Kovac
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@lexfridman Insane compression algorithm
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Milan Kovac
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@shivon Family!
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Milan Kovac
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@ViridianGames Can you rotate the camera continuously in full 3D style, or is it discrete directions like Ultima Underworld?
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Milan Kovac
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@RichardGarriott And great job @ViridianGames - I’ll be watching this one closely! Indeed porting Ultima Online to this would be so cool…
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@_milankovac_
Milan Kovac
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@ViridianGames @BruvaBoomhammer Could you push the 1st person branch by any chance?
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