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

A picture of an Optimus robot, wearing a cowboy hat and standing in front of a crowd of people, behind a table.
An Optimus robot at the We, Robot event. | Screenshot: Tesla We, Robot livestream

Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal last week. The robots mingled with the crowd, served drinks to and played games with guests, and danced inside a gazebo. Seemingly most surprisingly, they could even talk. But it was mostly just a show.

It’s obvious when you watch the videos from the event, of course. If Optimus really was a fully autonomous machine that could immediately react to verbal and visual cues while talking, one-on-one, to human beings in a dimly lit crowd, that would be mind-blowing.

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