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Why build a humanoid robot?

“It needs to be able to do things that people do… It needs to be able to work with tools, carry a bag, that kind of thing. Tesla is arguably the world’s biggest robotics company because our cars are like semi-sentient robots on wheels…”

— Elon Musk, 19 August 2021 · Watch: Tesla video (2:08:00) ↗