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Tesla’s Robot Is Utterly Pathetic
Trillion-dollar oportunity? Yeah right.
We are all getting a bit tired of Musk’s nonsense by now. Like an inadequate child claiming his dead-beat dad is actually an astronaut, he has been spouting demonstrably false techno-fantasies for decades now. Sure, he paid overworked engineers to produce EVs and self-landing rockets, but these concepts were already proven to work in the 90s. Everything else which falls out of his mouth, from Mars bound rockets, to vaccum trains, to self driving cars, to even his video game ability is all pure weapons grade bullshit. However, one example of his hogwash stands heads and shoulders above the rest: Tesla’s AI-powered robot, Optimus. Musk claims it will cost $30,000 when it eventually hits the market, and will rake in trillions of dollars as it replaces workforces across the globe. Musk couldn’t be more wrong if he tried, and this is yet more evidence he should stay off the drugs and fire the yes-men.
Let’s start with a recent video Tesla shared of Optimus, seemingly showing significant progress. Past versions have done nothing but shuffle around like my nan waiting for a hip replacement, or be pupeteered by interns functioning on nothing but coffee and desperation. A far cry from the do-it-all robot Musk promised. But this video showed Optimus doing a very jumpy dance while tethered to the ceiling…
