Tesla’s Optimus robot just took a giant leap forward, literally. In a pair of newly released videos, Elon Musk reveals Optimus performing complex dance moves, now entirely untethered and autonomous.

Humanoid robots have long been a punchline, from clumsy factory demos to viral clips of machines tripping over cables.

A week ago we saw Tesla’s Optimus robot showing off some nifty dance moves. This week, you can watch it performing a bunch of mundane tasks, though admittedly with a great deal of skill — for a ...

Optimus's origins trace back to Tesla's AI Day in August 2021, where Musk unveiled the concept as a general-purpose humanoid ...