Elon Musk takes 'spooky' humanoid robot out for walk round factory

Elon Musk took his Optimus robot for a walk around a factory floor in a video social media users have branded “spooky.”

The billionaire Tesla CEO posted footage on X/Twitter showing the almost 6-foot-tall humanoid taking steps.

“Going for a walk with Optimus,” Mr Musk said in a post on the social media site.

While many users seemed to be fascinated by the robot, others appeared to be startled by its human-like appearance.

“This one is spooky,” one commenter said.

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[henkverhaeren]

The robot walks like it just shits its pants

[stevesute]

This looks like an old man walking to the fridge in thr middle of the night, nothing spooky about that

[jaysee]

Even the people working there look freaked out

[garydeals]

Tell the truth.... is that Joe Biden walking ?😂

[macme]

It's walking looks like it's suffering from hemorrhoid overload

[TrumpedUp]

It walks as though it needs to make a serious bowel movement 😅

[heyrakorzlar]

He's building his own transformer army. Guy wants to be the next William Walker

[memonk]

Wow. Look out Boston Dynamic. In another 100 years the muskbot will be able to dance.

[billping]

I see the guy behind it with the remote controls. Same as the video of the robot folding a shirt. You can clearly see the humans' hand entering and the robot mirroring the movement. This is a misleading video.

[theycallmepeoples]

It turn radius would improve with ankles and toes

[theycallmepeoples]

The feet are wrong if they would make motorized knuckles and motorized toes the robot and the ankles would be able to rotate the robots lumber section could improve and the robot could walk upright and turn better

[TheDailyMemesShow]

Boston Dynamics is way ahead of this technology.

They haven't put humanoid hands to Atlas because it would freak a lot of people out, indeed.

[jodierye]

How many days will it be before this one is exposed as a fake.

[papatuanuku]

Looks like one of those things on the "The walking dead" 😂

[arodg]

I don't get it. What is this thing supposed to do eventually. Youd think a robot will be built for a certain task. Seeing as they put legs on this thing it seems like they're trying to build a robot for all tasks, which seems odd not and very effective.

[ambidextrousboy]

What's the inspiration behind this Optimus Tesla bot? Ain't it demonic?

[dvs]

This from the company that publicly showed a Gen 1 robot that was a person in a spandex bodysuit. 🙄 When will people stop huffing MuskDust?

[gildossantos]

Hij loopt erbij alsof ie net klaar is met zijn werk achter het centraal😮😅

[Denver_tld]

He's probably showing robot around the factory to remind everyone, his soon to be new members of the factory floor staff can't get be unionised...

[JerrysHouseMusic]

This is called “WE ARE NOT TRYING TO PAY PEOPLE” ! Sad!