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Elon Musk, Tesla Mocked for Copying ‘I, Robot’ Designs

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October 14, 2024

At Tesla‘s large Cybercab Robotaxi presentation final week on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California, the corporate additionally confirmed off the most recent iteration of the Tesla Bot, dubbed Optimus, in addition to a Robovan. The preliminary reveal of the trio of robotic merchandise brought about nice pleasure on social media, however, in a short time, reward turned to mockery because the designs had been scrutinized with a number of individuals accusing Elon Musk‘s firm of ripping off the designs discovered within the 2004 sci-fi movie I, Robotic starring Will Smith.

Tesla had dubbed the occasion “We, Robotic,” which performs into the title of Isaac Asimov’s 1950 short-story assortment on which the movie is predicated, so there was some recognition of the cross-pollination of concepts. Nevertheless, many on social media referred to as out the uncanny resemblance that every one three of Tesla’s deliberate robotic choices should comparable merchandise in Alex Proyas‘ movie, which is about in 2035 Chicago.

Optimus, a general-purpose robotic humanoid Tesla is presently growing that takes its identify from the Transformers character, does bear similarities with the NS5 robots present in I, Robotic. But it surely was the truth that the Robovan (a self-driving folks mover that appears just like the robotic supply automobile within the movie) and Robotaxi (a self-driving taxi that appears just like the Audi RSQ within the movie) additionally aped comparable autos present in I, Robotic that basically impressed the relentless mockery on social media and even a response from Proyas.

Proyas himself weighed in on Sunday, tweeting, “Hey Elon, can I’ve my designs again please?”

Filmmaker Matt Granger, who labored as an assistant to Proyas on I, Robotic tweeted, “I too want to provide my full-fingered ‘fuck you’ to Elon and his utter lack of creativity.”