Musk releases footage of
a Tesla robot that
raises questions about being real!
A video shared by Elon Musk on Tesla's robot X site, Optimus,
folding a T-shirt, sparked a major interaction between observers.
The video depicts Optimus next to a table while folding
a black shirt on its own without any help.
Musk, Tesla's president
shared the footage with the caption "Optimus folds a T-shirt."
Tesla first unveiled the human robot in 2022, as part of Musk's broader goals to automate all physical human actions and enhance the company's manufacturing processes.
The company said its ambition for the robot is to create a "generic, autonomous
two-pedal robot capable of performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks."
According to a billionaire biography published last year
Musk told his employees that the Optimus robot was key to turning
the electric car company into a $10 trillion company.
However
about 30 minutes after sharing the latest video
Musk shared an "important note" underneath the post that
the footage was not exactly what it seemed.
Optimus cannot do this independently yet
but will certainly
be able to do so quite independently and in an arbitrary
environment (it will not require a fixed table with
a box containing only one shirt)," Musk said.
X users as well as competition platform Threads raised questions about
how to produce the video if the robot's work was not "completely independent."
Some observers pointed
to a gloved hand that briefly appeared in and out of
the frame in the video, and appeared to mimic the movements of
the robot's hands.
The electric car company has not yet provided information about the price
or date of the Optimus release, but in the past Musk hinted that
the robot could cost less than $ 20 thousand.
Videos circulating online show that
these robots are able to move parts of their structures in different directions
are able to bend and make movements resembling sports movements carried
out by humans, and are making more complex movements
with the help of their arms.
According to
the information available
Tesla plans to use these robots in its manufacturing processes and
after verifying their capabilities, will put some of their models up for sale.
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