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This New Robot Is So Far Ahead of Elon Musk’s Optimus That It’s Almost Embarrassing
As if Elon Musk needed yet another reason to hate OpenAI. Figure, a startup that’s partnered with OpenAI to develop a humanoid robot, released a new video on Wednesday. And it’s truly heads above anything Tesla has demonstrated to date with the Optimus robot. The video from Figure, which is available on YouTube, shows a…
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Elon Musk’s Latest Robot Video Looks Like It Was Shot on a Phone From 2002
Elon Musk has shared a new video over the weekend featuring Optimus, the robot Tesla has been working on since 2021. But anyone who tries to watch the video will immediately notice something weird. The clip of Optimus is so low quality and pixelated that it looks like it was shot on a flip-phone from…
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10 Times It Was Earth All Along
Do you hate when you land on an alien planet, do something foolish like nuke it or die on it, only to realise you were on Earth the entire time? It happens more often than you’d think in fiction (seriously, check out the massive TV Tropes page). In fact, it’s completely overused, but there’s a…
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Optimus, the Tesla Bot, Is Finally Here, Sorta, Well, at the Very Least It’s Not a Guy in a Suit
Elon Musk has finally unveiled his ‘humanoid’ robot and it’s, uh…definitely a work in progress.