Tech billionaire Elon Musk isn’t proud of how the media lined a 2021 Tesla manufacturing facility damage report involving a robotic that got here to mild this week.
Mr. Musk took to X, the social media firm he owns, on Wednesday to complain about what he noticed as deceptive reviews.
“Truly shameful of the media to dredge up an injury from two years ago due to a simple industrial Kuka robot arm (found in all factories) and imply that it is due to Optimus now,” he wrote. The humanoid Optimus robots, unveiled final yr, are designed to carry out handbook labor.
Many of Mr. Musk‘s fans joined in on attacking the media coverage of the incident. Space enthusiast Andrew McCarthy claimed that using the word “attack” makes little sense when discussing the actions of a robot.
“‘Attacks’ implies it decided,” he wrote on X. “That robot did exactly as it was programmed to do.”
The protection surrounded a just lately disclosed damage report from Tesla‘s Giga Texas facility. In 2021, an engineer there was engaged on a software program replace for a couple of robots accountable for carrying aluminum. While the machines had been purported to be turned off throughout the replace, one was not.
The robotic pinned the engineer and lashed at his again and arms, leaving him with a gaping wound. Tesla claimed within the report that the worker didn’t want any day without work for restoration.
At the center of Mr. Musk‘s complaints, apparently, was that many shops conflated Tesla‘s Optimus bot and the Kuka robotic, the latter being the one concerned within the 2021 incident. No Optimus bots are operational at Tesla services, for the reason that humanoid robots are nonetheless below growth.
Mr. Musk didn’t try to contradict lots of the figures within the media reviews that counsel Tesla has the next damage fee than the remainder of the trade.
