Jalali HartmanMultiple reports are surfacing online that the Optimus robots shown serving drinks at the recent We, Robot event last week by Elon Musk was staged.
We’re a little unsure what that means but apparently multiple people have come forward and admitted that the robots were in fact walking autonomously, but they were not serving drinks or talking with the crowd. Those were people in special suits controlling the robots remotely.
This is not robotics, it’s remote control.
They still look impressive but what else about the demo(s) we’ve seen are engineers with joysticks vs true A.I. navigating the world.
Jalali Hartman is the founder of Robauto.ai. Since 2013 Robauto has been providing robotics education, news and innovation in the fields of robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He is a thought leader, TedX speaker and expert in algorithms and human-robot interaction.
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