[butifnot0701]

I feel like that's part of what Elon is flexing. Teslabot was late comer compared to competitors like BD.

Elon is showing off he can marshal enough resources and talents to be on par (kinda) with state of the art products in crazy time. That's been most of his superpower so far - not breakthrough tech that didnt exist before. We've had rockets before.

[mjamesaustin]

I don't like Elon either, but not only has SpaceX created breakthrough tech that didn't exist by landing an orbital class rocket, as of today still nobody else has done it.

Landing a rocket was considered impossible and unthinkable 10 years ago, and then SpaceX completely changed the game. And they're reinventing rocket tech again with Starship by catching it midair.

[GoatInGrey]

It still blows my mind that nobody has meaningfully replicated the Falcon 9 after thirteen years of it flying commercially.

[jprd]

We can all thank Gwynne Shotwell for this though.

[TFYS]

The number of people that have the capital and connections required to even attempt such things is very small, so it's not necessarily Musk's abilities that made those things happen, just the combination of having the power to allocate enough resources and an interest in such things.

[gonzobonzo]

> I feel like that's part of what Elon is flexing. Teslabot was late comer compared to competitors like BD.

When it come to bipedal robots, Tesla is far ahead of Boston Dynamics in terms of actually creating a product.

[lossolo]

Have you seen Unitree robots? They started mass producing them. It's Chinese company.

[wyclif]

We've had rockets before

Yeah, but we didn't have reusable orbital rockets, and that's a distinction with a big difference.