The IT Nerd

You have to ask yourself why Elon Musk insists on doing thing that make him look stupid. The latest case in point is his trip to the World Robot Conference in Beijing. He brought his Optimus robot to show it off. But according to Gizmodo, here’s what happened:

The World Robot Conference in Beijing was a show floor of wonder last week. Humanoid Chinese robots played the zither, folded laundry, and bested humans at the board game Go. As these modern miracles unfolded, Tesla’s Optimus robot looked on, unmoving, from inside a glass box.

And:

While these machines puttered around, Tesla’s Optimus stared at them from a glass cage surrounded by the company’s electric vehicles. Optimus is a sleek looking humanoid robot but it hasn’t done well in its product demos.

Elon Musk famously unveiled Tesla’s venture into robotics in the summer of 2021 by promising the company would soon put humanoid robots in people’s homes. During the presentation, a stiff looking machine walked on stage with Musk. It turned out it was just a guy in a suit. In a video Musk posted to X showing Optimus folding laundry, someone is just off camera operating the machine remotely.

So in short, while other robots were doing robot things, Elon’s robot did nothing. Likely because it can’t do anything interesting. Or perhaps anything at all. That’s not a surprise from a guy who is famous for playing fast and loose with the truth when it comes to the products his companies make. So perhaps Elon might want to focus on making his products actually work and match what he promises via Twitter rather than showing up somewhere with something that is non functional which makes him look like a liar and a loser. Just a thought.

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