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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Elon Musk’s Optimus bot stole the show at Tesla’s robotaxi unveil—but the AI was all smoke and mirrors

Photo of the Optimus robot, head and shoulders (Credit: John Ricky—Anadolu via Getty Images)

On paper, Thursday night’s “We, Robot” event may have belonged to Tesla’s robo-taxi, but the real star of the show was Optimus.

Elon Musk’s humanoid robot wowed attendees as a half-dozen or so navigated their way safely through the crowd at Warner Bros. studio lot in Hollywood entirely untethered.

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