alt Hacker NewsWhoever approved making a robot look like it is about to dance before awkwardly panning to a "static" model should not be making those decisions. It literally killed the vibe in the room. People went from the verge of freaking out to the biggest let down ever that it ruined whatever they said afterwards.
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Disagree, it was a good transition to a second example. It didn't kill it for me at all.
Really .. it was a bit anticlimatic. "We've developed the new Atlas. It's so great bla bla. We wanted to show it but now we don't" -- /switches off TV
This may be a bit overwrought, I’m on my 3rd watch and can’t identify the moment where breakdancing could be expected, my best guess is when it does a tai chi position at 3m20s, which seems unlikely but perhaps on the nose if you’re western, young, not a dancer, and don’t know breakdancing well, i.e. as a series of static positions moved through slowly.
No doubt the original intent was to have the blue robot start breakdancing, but the engineering team probably said it wasn't ready on time
Sometimes, demos are just not ready on time. It's a reality of life. Not every company throws baseballs at their Cybertruck windows onstage.