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minus-squareLovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 month agoTesla is betting on a multipurpose humanoid robots. That is the main problem here, it is difficult to make just a single robot that can do everything, instead of a line of different robots for very specific use cases.
minus-squareWakmrow [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoThis is like. Fucking impossible.
minus-squareLovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-21 month ago“Tesla will have one million Robotaxis on the road by the end of 2020” [edit] “Musk admits no Optimus robots are doing ‘useful work’ at Tesla — after claiming otherwise” He says that $TSLA’s Optimus is going to be produced ‘later this year’, however later admitted its still only in the R&D phase… https://electrek.co/2026/01/28/musk-admits-no-optimus-robots-are-doing-useful-work-at-tesla-after-claiming-otherwise/
Tesla is betting on a multipurpose humanoid robots. That is the main problem here, it is difficult to make just a single robot that can do everything, instead of a line of different robots for very specific use cases.
This is like. Fucking impossible.
“Tesla will have one million Robotaxis on the road by the end of 2020”
[edit]
https://electrek.co/2026/01/28/musk-admits-no-optimus-robots-are-doing-useful-work-at-tesla-after-claiming-otherwise/