Optimus boasts opposable thumbs as Musk touts progress
Elon Musk has shown off a prototype humanoid robot walking and waving its hand, seeking to demonstrate advances in artificial intelligence made by Tesla.
At the electric automaker’s AI (artificial intelligence) Day late Friday, Musk also showed a video of the robot picking up boxes and moving through a rendered office building to water plants.
“The robot can actually do a lot more than we just showed you,” said Musk. “We just didn’t want it to fall on its face.”
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