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Elon Musk and Tesla are touting the company\u2019s Optimus robot as its next revolutionary moneymaker, but after several incidents, some are questioning how autonomous it actually is.<\/p>\n
During an event titled \u201cautonomy visualized\u201d at a Tesla location in Miami over the weekend, one of the humanoid robots handing out water bottles fell backwards after making upward motions toward its head with both hands, according to a video posted to Reddit. (This incident was shortly after Russia debuted its first AI-powered robot, which similarly fell onstage at an event). The Tesla event was meant to show off its \u201cAutopilot technology and Optimus,\u201d Electrek<\/em> reported<\/em>.<\/p>\n It made the movement after accidentally knocking some of the water bottles it was handing out off a desk, and stood out because of its similarity to a human reaction. While it\u2019s unknown what actually occurred during the incident, the robot\u2019s movement led some online to speculate the robot may have been taking off a VR headset.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tesla did not immediately respond to Fortune<\/em>\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n Tesla Optimus The incident stood out because Tesla has used human-controlled Optimus robots at prior events. During Tesla\u2019s Robotaxi event last year, attendees interacted with Optimus robots in person. Some played rock, paper, scissors, while others served drinks or posed for photos.<\/p>\n Yet, it turns out\u2014although the company did not advertise it\u2014some of those bots were apparently being controlled remotely by humans. At least one Optimus robot admitted it, saying: \u201cToday, I\u2019m assisted by a human, I\u2019m not yet fully autonomous,\u201d although the LA Times<\/em>reported, at the time, using humans to operate the bots may have been due to a late request by Musk to include the robots in the Robotaxi event.<\/p>\n Tesla has previously trained its robots with workers wearing special motion-capture suits and VR headsets.<\/p>\n While Tesla has relied on humans before to showcase their Optimus robots, Musk has often said the robots, in other settings, are not human operated.<\/p>\n In reply to a post on X in October that showed Optimus practicing martial arts, Musk affirmed the robots movements were \u201cAI, not tele-operated.\u201d At the premiere of Tron: Ares <\/em>that same month, an Optimus robot can also be seen squaring up with actor Jared Leto, a feat which Musk also said was AI-led, not human-controlled.<\/p>\n \u201cOptimus was at the Tron<\/em> premiere doing kung fu, just up in the open, with Jared Leto. Nobody was controlling it. It was just doing kung fu with Jared Leto at the Tron<\/em> premier. You can see the videos online,\u201d Musk said during Tesla\u2019s third quarter earnings call. \u201cThe funny thing is, a lot of people walked past it thinking it was just a person.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Whether the Optimus robots still rely on human assistance is unclear, yet Musk and Tesla have pinned high hopes on the product, which Musk has called \u201cthe biggest product of any kind, ever.\u201d<\/p>\n Musk has projected Optimus could represent up to 80% of the company\u2019s total value, and during the company\u2019s third quarter earnings call, the CEO said Tesla would next year start\u00a0 building a production line that could eventually have an annual capacity of 1 million Optimus robots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Tesla #promotes #Optimus #big #breakthrough #robots #collapse #sparked #doubts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elon Musk and Tesla are toutin… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[237,2120,624,2121,2123,554,2119,2118,959,951,952,2122,953,853],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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