Tesla’s Optimus robots are more human than they seem

Elon Musk has unveiled Tesla’s autonomous taxi, known as the Cybercab, at the large-scale event We, Robot. From the Warner Bros studios in Burbank, attendees were able to see the driverless prototypes navigate a closed circuit for the first time. To top it off, the presentation was enlivened by the humanoid robots Optimus, also from Tesla. These robots, at first glance, leaned more towards the human than the synthetic.

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One of the attendees, Robert Scoble, posted on his X profile that the Optimus robots were being remotely controlled by humans. Later, he clarified that, according to an engineer, they were using AI to walk.

The signs were there. The immediate responses, the difference in voices between robots, gesticulation… too good to be true. It’s not like Tesla was very concerned about maintaining the illusion either.

Another of the Optimus at the event revealed to one of the attendees that “today a person is helping me” and that it was not entirely autonomous. In the recorded video, it is also noticeable that it does not completely pronounce the word “autonomous” correctly.