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Billionaire Twitter/X owner Elon Musk announced Thursday that Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robots will one day “walk amongst you.”

He made the riveting announcement at a Los Angeles event coinciding with the unveiling of CyberCap, an unmanned, autonomous vehicle that contains no steering wheel or brakes.

“The Optimus will walk amongst you,” he said at the event. “You’ll be able to walk right up to them, and they will serve drinks.”

He wasn’t kidding either.

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Musk went on to explain that Optimus can essentially “do anything.”

“[We wanted] a robot with arms and legs instead of a robot with wheels,” he began. “And we’ve made a lot of progress with Optimus. And as you can see, we started off with someone in a robot suit. And then we progressed dramatically year after year. So if you extrapolate this, you’re really going to have something spectacular — something that anyone can own.”

“So you can have your own personal R2-D2, C-3PO. It’ll basically do anything you want. It can be a teacher, babysit your kids, it can walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend, serve drinks, whatever you can think of, it can do. It’s going to be awesome. And I think this will be the biggest product ever of any kind, because I think anyone of the eight billion people on Earth — I think everyone’s going to want their Optimus buddy,” he added.

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After the official announcement, attendees were allowed to interact with a number of Optimus robots. The results were out of this world.

In one especially viral interaction, a gentleman enjoyed a full conversation with an Optimus robot.

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The conversation began with the attendee, John, introducing himself to the Optimus robot and then being asked where he was from.

“Hello John, how are you doing? Where are you from?” the robot asked.

“From San Jose, probably from where you were born in Silicon Valley,” John replied.

“That’s wonderful. Where do you live in San Jose?” the robot pressed.

“I live in [undecipherable.] Where do you live?” John replied.

“I live in Palo Alto at the current moment. That’s where they train us, that’s where we get our build, and that’s where we work with a wonderful group of people,” the robot responded.

“What’s the hardest thing about being a robot?” John then asked.

“Trying to learn how to be as human as you guys are,” Optimus replied.

In another viral interaction, the rapper 2 Chainz also enjoyed a conversation with an Optimus robot.

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Optimus was also spotted playing rock, paper, scissors.

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The creation of Optimus was originally announced in mid-2021 but with a different name: the Tesla Bot.

“It will be based on Tesla’s Autopilot system and is essentially a humanoid form of the car,” Mashable reported at the time. “Musk considers the electric vehicles ‘fully sentient robots on wheels.’ So might as well make it a human-like bot!”

“The bot looks like a human with two arms (and two hands with five fingers) and two legs. It’ll stand at 5 feet 8 inches and weigh 125 pounds. It can only run 5 mph, which Musk assured was slow enough for most people to escape if something goes wrong: ‘If you can run faster than that it’ll be fine,’” according to Mashable.

However, at the time, the tech was still too early, so instead of an actual robot, a human dressed as a robot danced on stage at the event.

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