The $500,000 robotic servant Elon Musk claims will promote 10 billion items by 2040 can barely stroll and struggles with questions like ‘the place can I get a coke?’

The longer term is right here, however do not anticipate a lot from it. The most recent video of Tesla’s “Optimus” robotic, which is meant to be a pillar of the corporate’s future, exhibits the robotic struggling to do something for nearly a minute straight.

The video was posted on X (previously Twitter) final week by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce who lately boasted about changing 4,000 “heads” (workers) with AI, calling it the “Agentforce.” Benioff gifted that very same awkward time period to Musk’s robotic in his tweet.

“Elon’s Tesla Optimus is right here,” Benioff wrote. “Daybreak of the bodily Agentforce revolution, tackling human work for $200K–$500K. Productiveness game-changer! Congrats [Elon Musk], and thanks for all the time being so variety to me!”

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The video, which has been reposted on Bluesky, exhibits Benioff and Musk speaking to a gold Optimus robotic, which says it is “simply chilling” to kick issues off. Benioff then asks, “Hey Optimus, have you learnt the place I can get a coke?” The robotic appears to essentially battle with that one. It replies, “Sorry I do not… Have real-time data, however I can take you to the kitchen if you wish to examine for a coke there.”

Even that appears to be asking loads of Optimus. It stands there staring on the digital camera with its soulless void of a face for a number of seconds, and Musk could be heard off digital camera saying, “I believe we have to give it a bit extra… room.”

The robotic lastly lurches into movement with a sound like rattling plastic and hobbles down an aisle in an empty workplace (apparently towards a kitchen, which can or might not have coke). Off digital camera, Musk is fast so as to add, “It will have the ability to stroll loads quicker.”

For context, that is the robotic that simply final week Musk claimed will ultimately make up “80% of Tesla’s worth.” Benioff claims in his tweet that the robotic will probably be “tackling human work for $200K–$500K. Productiveness game-changer!”

If Optimus cannot even retrieve drinks for $500,000, it is arduous to imagine it is a “game-changer” of any variety, not to mention price betting Tesla’s future on. Regardless of that, Musk has repeatedly insisted these humanoid robots are the long run, even claiming there will probably be 10 billion of them wandering the Earth by 2040 (for no less than $20,000 every).

Even its most spectacular talent, the flexibility to stroll on two legs, is not all that particular. As BlueSky person El Gato Astronomico‬ put it in a remark, “Strolling with out falling over is each extraordinarily arduous to perform and by far the best factor to get a robotic to do, so this factor is like 11% pretty much as good as Boston Dynamics atlas from 7 years in the past, 3% in direction of having the ability to do something that could possibly be thought of helpful and 0.05% in direction of doing it under value.”

One other commenter summed up the entire demo, saying, “Think about how a lot it doesn’t work if that is the video they put out.” Even when Optimus knew the place to discover a coke, it seems to nonetheless have joint-less model arms, so it could not have picked up a drink anyway.