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What is real?

Tesla’s Optimus robot has been plagued by fakery since it launched with a dancer in a suit followed by remote manipulation at the cybercab event. So what is this? Generative AI? A man behind the curtain in a mocap suit?

Does it even matter if Tesla can’t mass produce them without China’s rare earth magnets?

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