Tesla Inc. responded to blowback over its robots relying on remote human operators at an event last week with a video demonstrating the progress its prototypes are making in moving around on their own.

Musk’s robot sets off a flood of memes as fans imagine robots doing everything from walking dogs to rolling blunts.

A bunch of Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robots walked out alongside the reveal of Tesla’s new Robovan vehicle at tonight's Cybercab event. The robot is also seen in a video doing daily human tasks like bringing in a package off the porch and watering your plants.

One of the highlights of Tesla’s “We, Robot” event wasn’t the self-driving cars but the allegedly autonomous robots. Tesla’s Optimus bot isn’t new, but this is the first event where actual robots joined the stage—and the crowd—rather than a person in a robot costume. Or was it?

Tesla used humans to remotely control some capabilities of its Optimus robot prototypes at a recent event, according to people familiar with the matter.

CEO Elon Musk said last week at the company's " We, Robot " event that the Tesla Optimus humanoid "will be the biggest product ever of any kind." But since then a minor controversy erupted: It turns out that humans were helping to operate the robots at the event,

Tesla’s latest innovation, the Tesla Optimus Robot, made its debut inside a stunning $6.85 million home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Mandeville Canyon, The Post has learned. The high-tech automaton was seen inside the for-sale home on the launch video,

Screenshot from a new video of Tesla's Optimus robot with an annotation showing the 8x speed. Image: Tesla / X Tesla released a new video early Thursday showing its much-hyped Optimus robot in action.