"Trick-or-treating season is here. For some New Yorkers, their candy came from a Tesla robot's hand. On Monday, Tesla showed off two of its future products in front of the Nasdaq building in Times Square. One was the Cybercab, a fully autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals that has yet to enter production. The other was Tesla's humanoid Optimus robot, also in development, which came bearing sweet treats."
"New Yorkers filmed Optimus picking up small red and yellow bags from a table and handing them to passersby. The bags contained "gummies," per "Squawk Box" co-anchor Rebecca Quick. Quick said that "one or twice, he dropped them," but that "he went back and picked them up." Tesla board chair Robyn Denholm, whom Quick was interviewing, agreed. "I've been in the lab with Optimus, and he can fold laundry," she said."
"During previous Optimus demos, Tesla's humanoid robots were tele-operated. At a 2024 "We Robot" event, Tesla deployed several Optimus robots to work as bartenders. Morgan Stanley analysts later wrote that the robots weren't fully operating independently and "relied on tele-ops," or humans controlling them behind the scenes. In June, insiders told Business Insider that the company was pursuing a vision-only approach for its Optimus program."
Tesla displayed two in-development products in front of the Nasdaq building: the Cybercab, a fully autonomous vehicle without a steering wheel or pedals, and the Optimus humanoid robot. Optimus picked up small red and yellow bags from a table and handed them to passersby; the bags contained gummies. Observers noted that Optimus appeared plugged in by the shoulders and dropped treats once or twice before picking them up. Previous demonstrations relied on tele-operation, with analysts saying robots "relied on tele-ops." Insiders reported a shift toward a vision-only training approach instead of teleoperation-based methods.
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