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The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise


The robots were just a little too slick.

Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal last week. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote that the robots “relied on tele-ops (human intervention)” in a note, the outlet reports. In another video that Jalopnik pointed to, an Optimus’ voice jokingly told Scoble that “it might be some” when he asked it how much it was controlled by AI.

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