The one above is Optimus, the humanoid robot developed by Tesla that according to Elon Musk will be on sale next year, what year? It doesn't matter, when you see Optimus serving popcorn and joking with people, it would seem that that promise is not so incredible, yes, he is a little slow at serving popcorn and made the line grow, but people don't care because they want the experience of having a robot give them popcorn.

Emptying a spoonful of popcorn into a cardboard container is not that complicated for you or me, but if you think about the delicacy and precision required to tilt the spoon at a certain angle so that the popcorn does not fall as quickly or the pressure necessary to not let go of the cardboard container or crush it, you realize the level of complexity and dexterity that involves the coordination of sight, touch, strength and fine motor skills.

There is nothing, no species that even comes close to the level of precision and versatility of our hands, so Tesla is inching closer to replacing human skill with a robot, right? Well, the video above revealed something interesting to us, Optimus makes the movement that a person would make when taking off a virtual reality headset before falling backwards like a board.

This tells us that the robot was being controlled remotely by a Tesla employee, surely it was going to take a break, but someone forgot to disconnect the controls, this means that Tesla is cheating, not really, because Tesla has never clearly spoken about the development phase in which its humanoid robot is. For example, in that event nowhere does it say that the robot that will serve you popcorn is completely autonomous, that is, there is no lie.

It is simply an event that gives publicity to the company and not a demonstration of the real current capabilities of the robot, and Tesla has not made that information public, it simply announces that it will be ready next year and that it will cost between $20,000 and $30,000. Like, I better not want popcorn.

Tesla's Optimus robot is not only one of several serious bets to develop a commercial humanoid robot, there is also Apollo from the company Apptronik, this industry-focused robot has participated in programs from companies such as Mercedes-Benz, where its capabilities are tested on the automotive production line.

And this is where the weaknesses of humanoid robots start to become apparent, Apollo has a decent level of dexterity, but he is simply very slow, at least at this point in his development, he is a long way from competing with human workers, not to mention that someone has to put everything at their fingertips and they need a very controlled environment for them to work.

This after having spent $431 million to develop it, in its defense, Tesla's Optimus has cost 10 times more and has not even been shown to work without being controlled by a human, let's wait to see this year how Tesla does with its Optimus.