For a lot of people, the concept of AI-driven humanoid robots remains terrifying. Aside from the brief moments of hilarity when Tesla's Optimus falls over or turns out to be an actor dressed up, the prospect of robots becoming part of everyday life recalls dystopian sci-fi worlds, like those of Terminator or I, Robot.
Their physical designs don't help. Like the infamously impractical Cybertruck design, Optimus's appearance seems to be modelled on a sinister Blade Runner-inspired vision of the future. But a European startup has come along that thinks it can make robots more appealing. UMA might be a late comer to the space, but it's showing that a European AI robot would at least be more sartorially elegant, because of course it would.
