James Vincent

And when he got involved, a lot of companies followed suit.

Even though, as you write about in your cover story from Harper's from a few months ago,

When he got involved, it was sort of anticlimactic and quite boring.

But even that presentation in which I think a human dressed up as a robot was like dancing to some EDM.

Yeah.

It created perhaps the hype that we're seeing now.

The event you're talking about was Tesla's AI Day.

It does these annual press jamborees that show off the new products and the roadmap to the public.

This was in 2021.

Prior to this, there had been increasing momentum and interest in humanoid robotics, helped very much by AI.

But when Musk got involved, he tends to move companies or tries to move them very, very fast.

And so he didn't have a fully working prototype to show the press.

And instead, infamously, famously, he had an individual in a spandex robot suit who, as you say, came up and did a dance to EDM, to dubstep, dates it somewhat.

Thank you.

And he said, we're going to build these things.

And obviously he's been working on prototypes since that came out.

They were very quick to produce a working machine prototype, but they're kind of running up against the limitations of the technology at the moment, I would say.

And we're sort of waiting on the latest version of Optimus, and that has been delayed several times.

And I think we're beginning to see, okay, is this actually, is it pure hype or is there something coming out of it?

And I think Musk and Tesla is very much being tested by this.