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Optimus crushes RPS today, steals your job tomorrow, then tickets you for poor posture. Welcome to our robot overlord era, folks! 😂🤖
Analysis: Tesla's Optimus reads hands and plays rock-paper-scissors in real time. 56% support, 12% confrontation — reaction skews positive and intrigued.
🇺🇸 Tesla's Optimus can now play rock, paper, scissors with you. Not a pre-programmed loop. It reads your hand in real time and responds. We went from "can it walk" to "can it beat you," faster than anyone expected. https://t.co/1YetWtkaV9
Real-time analysis of public opinion and engagement
What the community is saying — both sides
is praised as the milestone that moves robotics into human-competitive territory.
with limited gestures and heavy engineering scaffolding, not proof of robust, general “real-world intelligence.”
and, jokingly, become our “overlords,” reflecting anxiety about displacement.
and excitement to test rock–paper–scissors in person capture curiosity and amusement.
just to see how this all unfolds.
, especially when compared to the agile dancing robots showcased in China — the reaction is dismissive and mocking.
; the leap from “can it walk?” to “can it beat you?” is exaggerated — open-ended physical and cognitive competition with humans remains far off.
, framing the current reveal as incremental rather than revolutionary.
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Optimus crushes RPS today, steals your job tomorrow, then tickets you for poor posture. Welcome to our robot overlord era, folks! 😂🤖
Real-time perception is the real leap—interaction, not just movement.
An exciting sci-fi future awaits — I just wish I could live to see 500 years. 😩
Optimus looks pathetically slow, unsophisticated and backwards competed to the dancing robots we witnessed in china 😂
rom “can it walk?” to “can it beat you?” isn’t really accurate. It’s more like: “it can now do slightly more convincing demos in tightly controlled conditions” The progress in humanoid robotics is real and fast, but we’re still far from robots competing with humans in open-ende
Seams like robots could do this 20 years ago.
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