Optimus at Tesla AI Day — Tesla

The Tesla Bot Isn’t What You Think It Is

Everything isn’t as it seems.

Will Lockett
Predict
Published in
6 min readOct 18, 2022

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On September 30th, 2022, Tesla held their annual AI Day, and Musk demonstrated the first prototype of their Tesla Bot, “Optimus.” If you are a regular reader of mine, you will know that I usually leap at these sorts of advancements. But this time, I couldn’t. Something just didn’t feel right to me. Then, after some long, hard thought, I realised…

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Will Lockett
Predict

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