Optimus robots wandered across the get together held after Elon Musk’s Tesla unveiled its robotaxi final month, doling out drinks and chatting with friends. They had been additionally being photographed, as android butlers make for nice social media content material. Partygoers couldn’t imagine their eyes – they usually shouldn’t have. The robots weren’t totally autonomous, however remote-controlled avatars.
That shouldn’t have shocked the tech-savvy revellers. In spite of everything, when Musk first unveiled Optimus in 2021, the humanoid robotic that strode onto stage was truly a costumed dancer. Certainly, all through the lengthy historical past of robots, if one impresses with its intelligence,…