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Optimus trip or teleop slip?

Footage of Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robot falling over at the company’s Autonomy Visualized event is raising questions over its, well, autonomy. We can’t be sure, but it certainly looks like a teleoperator removing a VR headset.

It wouldn’t be the first time Tesla disguised humans as robots.

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