Those robots are complete vaporware. I would predict we're about to see whole lot of robot hype video clips on twitter and tiktok very soon. We're going to see his fake "robot" playing soccer, making breakfast, juggling, and whatever. I'm sure they'll be all ai generated. There will be paid tesla influencers who already bought cybertruck hyping up this non existent robots very soon. Elon will tout millions of robots sold but in reality they were all sold to spacex and those robots will be sitting in a hanger somewhere. It's all smoke and mirrors.
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All I can hear is "Get ready to smash some clankers soon" ✨
Thank you mister Elon Musk for making the most advanced punching bags yet ! Pretty please, can you make it so they bleed when we destroy them ? Being splashed with android blood sounds absolutely glorious 👑
How does this idiot have any money?
Step 1: Start with lots of money
Step 2: Find a bunch of other rich idiots willing to invest their money.
Step 0: Be born to a literal slave owner.
Step 3: Find rubes who don't own a lot to invest because you play on their savior fantasy from a literal cartoon arms dealer.
Step 4: Call a hero who saved a child life, a pedophiles
Step 5: ???
I gave him lots of money when he showed off Teslas all-electric sports car, pitched the model S sedan, and laid out the plan for solar roof tiles, and home battery storage.
It was a beautiful moment when I saw a billionaire putting their money against fossil fuels.
When he was struggling to get model 3 production rolling, I gave him lots more money.
Then he started shitting on trans folks and I started divesting, but still wanted Tesla to succeed.
Then he essentially bought twitter with that money I gave him to develop Tesla and reports of working conditions started coming out so I divested more... But I held hope Tesla board would kick him out and I could put that money back.
Then he got into politics and Tesla board voted to give Elon tens of billions and I left all the way.
Fucking shame.
There was a moment when Tesla was investing tens of billions into actual electrification research and developing compelling projects and making lots of money because of it.
Every once in a while he blackmails the Tesla board into giving him a shit ton of money. Besides that he doesn't have much, his wealth is in stocks, mostly Tesla, because his other companies aren't publicly traded. What rich people do to actually get money is they get a loan backed by their stocks, and then never really paying it back. Tesla is extremely overvalued, but because of that he can just borrow as much money as he wants.
At least the costumes can be sold for Halloween in Tesla’s forthcoming liquidation sale, unlike their cars that nobody wants.
Spirit Halloween is gonna be lit in a few years!
They are making robots that are confirmed to not do anything on their own? The ones he has been scamming people and lying over using human remote operators?
The robots are going to finish that tunnel in California. They will carry your car through the tunnel, as always promised. They just need a little funding.
Elon Musk is a Nazi
He Should be stripped of his security clearance and incarcerated immediately.
why does he have it in the first place? he is just a rich psychopath
Because the Republican party has become the party of rich psychopaths
He's only got security clearance because he's a Nazi. A normal person would have been denied it.
Sales are tanking, profits are tanking, and he's being forced to abandon his precious "SEXY" branding, by ditching the S and the X. Now it's just "EY."
Tesla has crashed, and is NEVER coming back. Sales/profits will continue to slip with each earnings report. The only thing keeping it afloat is because it is held in massive institutional investment accounts, but as it continues it's inexorable slide, those institutional accounts will start to sell down, accelerating the slide, until they all bail, and Tesla stock nosedives.
Tesla will be bankrupt in 2 years.
Now it's just "EY."
Someone should troll him that its a trans thing
Don't forget it's actually 3Y, if you want to make sure whatever trolling actually sticks.
Fascist scammer
This dude needs to stop getting high for, like, twenty minutes.
They’re not making the car that got them started and popular? A bold move.
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I am personally rather skeptical about the commercial viability of humanoid robots in 2026, but I suppose that we shall see.
They are just the prototypes to the eventual Slaughterbots that will be deployed into the streets to kill us, and bring us under control.
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He is shifting production to a robot he can't even show a working prototype for. The US taxpayer will be buying some expensive Roombas in 2026....
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Should Hasbro be able to sue for this? Sure there's some trademark here.
He's so fucking uncreative. At least Thiel is slightly more clever with his references
How fuckin dare he drag Optimus' name through the gutter with his fascist metal dogs.
This will be a glorious failure.
Even if his robots were ready for primetime (they're not), I don't see how he's going to be able to price them affordably, given the RAM shortages.
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Stock market capitalization bigger than all the European and American car brands COMBINED but they only sell two very similar vehicles. Makes sense
2 very similar cars and a $100k dumpster dressed as a truck
So basically the cars are not selling, but he doesn't want to be seen to be closing the factories.
This. They'll shut down for retooling, open up to churn out a small number of robots that do nothing, and claim success while firing most of the staff.
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Nazis deserve a punch in the face, not money.
Boycott Tesla and Nazi led companies. Do not buy their products, do not buy their stock. Ensure any investment funds you have are free of Nazis.
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Damn. It's the end then. That can only mean the robots are ready for the streets. Literally, THE STREETS.
Think about it. He's in the government (non-elected) and they are deploying ICE agents everywhere.
The robots will 100% be seen standing at street corners "keeping the peace" within a year.
Omfg am I crazy, or is this realistic? Please just tell me I'm wrong and there's no chance.
You're not crazy, but it won't be Elon who does it. The Tesla robots are nowhere near ready for production. This is vaporware, just like the Roadster.
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With all due respect, you're crazy. They can't even scoop popcorn.
https://electrek.co/2025/07/23/tesla-teleoperated-robot-fail-serving-popcorn-first-day-new-diner/
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