Somehow Russia has created an even worse robot than Elon Musk (allegedly) – Jalopnik

Whether he believes it or not, Elon Musk keeps telling people that his humanoid robot will change the world, end poverty, prevent crime and ultimately be bigger than the cell phone. The only problem is, the last time we checked in with the humanoid robot that will reportedly turn Tesla into a $5 trillion company, it didn’t look ready for prime time. Not at all. The crypto bros who have been portraying NFTs as the next big thing can tell you that Elon has this whole thing completely figured out, but from what we’ve seen so far, his continued obsession with these robots is just embarrassing.

But hey, it’s not all bad news for Elon. Other companies are working on their own humanoid robots, and while that means he’ll face competition, it also means that if one of those other companies messes up, Tesla’s Optimus robot might not be the most embarrassingly terrible humanoid robot on the Internet from Al Gore. I mean, what if, say, a Russian company held a launch event for a new humanoid robot, and it went so badly that it’s basically impossible to write about it without making at least one joke about Russia’s high alcoholism rate?

If something like that were to happen, it would be terrible. And hilarious. As you can see in the video below, it was actually hilarious too.

After all, this was supposed to be the big reveal. The future of the robot was supposed to be here, and everyone in the room was about to witness this humanoid robot walk for the first time. Knowing how far along they were in the development process, they chose that date and even had the Rocky theme song played. It should have been a triumph. And then the robot comes off as something Honda would have refused to show to the public in the 1990s.

Then, after about 11 seconds, it gets even worse. It falls on its face, forcing two people on stage to pick it up again, while a third struggles to drag some black cloth across the stage to prevent the audience from seeing what is happening. Just a complete disaster and arguably worse than that time Faraday Future unveiled a rebadged Chinese minivan. How do you even recover from a product reveal that’s so bad even Elon Musk laughs at you?

Of course, it’s entirely possible that we’re missing something here, but for now let’s all just point and laugh at the evil Russian robot.