The grifty Tesla product demo (featuring the world's most expensive vending machine) was so bad that it drove Tesla stock price down by about 10%.... and drove Uber and Lyft stock price UP by about 10%.
Musk is now doing demos for the benefit of his competitors 🙂
The tragedy of the robot demo is that if he hadn’t tried to pass off the "robots" as autonomous and AI controlled, he would have been able to present them as a quantum leap forward in low-latency telepresence.
While "Optimus" may suck as a bartender, one can't help but wonder what sort of telepresence applications there might be.