"I have a soft spot for robot fail videos. I watch them on a loop, chuckling to myself, as a kind of therapy. Maybe I'm a sadist, maybe I need to get out more - you can judge me later - but they get me every time. So naturally, I've been glued to a clip of Tesla's Optimus robot falling like a felled tree at the company's Autonomy Visualized event in Miami that's been doing the rounds on social media this week."
"According to the footage, Elon Musk's vaunted humanoid robot was handing out water bottles from behind a table before knocking a bunch over, flailing its arms upward, and collapsing backwards like a puppet whose strings had been severed. Watch closely and you'll see two things: a small plume of water as its arm crushes a bottle mid-fall (it made me laugh), and a motion uncannily similar to someone removing a VR headset."
"It wouldn't be the first time Tesla has faked the autonomous part of its autonomous robot, which Musk says is central to the company's future. An early demonstration was just a dancer in a skintight bodysuit to show what the Tesla Bot, now Optimus, could be. Later demonstrations were revealed to be (rather obviously, by the sound of it) humans in disguise, operating the robots remotely with something like a VR headset, which we know Tesla uses in development."
Robot fail videos provoke amusement and highlight unexpected fragility in humanoid machines. A Tesla Optimus robot toppled while handing out water, knocking bottles over and collapsing backward. Footage shows a plume of water and a motion resembling someone removing a VR headset. Tesla previously staged demonstrations using a dancer in a skintight bodysuit and humans remotely operating robots via VR. Musk frames humanoid robots as central to Tesla's future, but staged presentations and visible physical failures expose a disconnect between promotional claims and actual robotic performance.
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