Elon Musk: Tesla achieves human-level dexterity with robot hands.
Evidence notes
- It’s an impressive set of feats, and a video recently posted to social media of Tesla’s Optimus robot catching a tennis ball in mid-air , then repeating the feat, certainly seems like something to add to the annals of.
- As Milan Kovac, Tesla’s VP, Head of Engineering — Optimus (Tesla Bot) explained in a follow-up post , the reality behind this feat is a little more complicated than that
- Just like when Tesla’s robots mixed drinks earlier this fall, there was a human working behind the scenes to guide Optimus through its paces
Company context
Tesla is an automotive and AI company developing Optimus, a general-purpose humanoid built on its autonomy, battery, and vertically integrated manufacturing stack.