The latest video of Tesla’s humanoid robots roaming the workshops seemed to showcase the progress of Optimus development — if not for one interesting thing. The website Gizmodo I noticed that many of the shots were deliberately sped up (probably to make Tesla’s robots look «more capable»).
Indeed, in the video, Optimus looked like a fully operational product: it wandered around the factory floors, picked up boxes, climbed stairs, and even poured drinks for customers at the bar. The latter skill, by the way, also demonstrated at the presentation of robotaxi but later one of the participants said that the robot was supposedly remotely controlled by a human engineer.
At the same time, Tesla used robots not only live, but also on record — and they didn’t even try to hide the acceleration in the video, as you can see the speed of X2-X10 in the upper right corner.
And in fact, this is not the first time Tesla has been caught in a «easy» — In January, Elon Musk posted a video on his page of Optimus folding a shirt and accidentally illuminated the engineer who controlled the robot’s actions (Elon later admitted this himself after dozens of comments pointing this out).
Gizmodo’s Matt Novak slowed down the latest Optimus footage to real-world speed — so for link you can see how long it actually takes the robot to take the tray to the rack. In my subjective opinion, the robot does a pretty good job (although it doesn’t seem to be as fast as Tesla wants it to be), but the misleading advertising could have been avoided.