Simone Giertz Builds an Autonomous Charging Robot for Her Tesla(youtube.com)

33 pointsby jdamon96قبل 3 سنوات6 comments

Simone Giertz Builds an Autonomous Charging Robot for Her Tesla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmUW0dzQPmY

7 comments

schiffernقبل 3 سنوات

Honestly, I feel this rather highlights the engineering effectiveness of the original Tesla snake charger design. It's "just" a bunch of identical injection-molded spine pieces, and a bunch of identical winch actuators pulling on wires. Even the copper cable is much significantly shorter, which is a non-trivial cost and environmental impact if you plan to deploy millions worldwide.

The original Tesla video was dragged for being too sexual, so it's almost a relief to see that any implementation is going to be unnecessarily sexualized. It's just a lame joke that we're all going to have to "get past" as part of our cultural development.

jterrysقبل 3 سنوات

The way the charger calibrated itself to Tesla's charging port was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time

meghan_rainقبل 3 سنوات

Right, it looked kind of...rapey :D

jdamon96قبل 3 سنوات

Simone Giertz partners with Viam, a modern robotics platform founded by the co-founder and CTO of MongoDB, Eliot Horowitz, to build an autonomous charging robot for her custom Tesla truck.

(I work at Viam)

throwntodayقبل 3 سنوات

Gonna be honest she rinsed you guys. Made a 10-min vlog that basically said nothing about your product and you guys had to do the whole thing.

iliabaraقبل 3 سنوات

Quick honest question: What benefit did Viam bring that isn't brought by ROS for this project?

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