Tesla's plan to put a can-do-anything-for-you humanoid on the market still looks a long way off. Why it matters: CEO Elon Musk said last week at the company's "We, Robot" event that the Tesla Optimus humanoid "will be the biggest product ever of any kind.

Tesla Inc‘s (NASDAQ:TSLA) humanoid robot Optimus was human-assisted “to some extent” at the ‘We, Robot’ event last week, company engineer Milan Kovac said on Wednesday. What Happened: The “We, Robot” event was held by Tesla on Oct.

Tesla's main announcement coming from the company's recent "We, Robot" event was the Robotax i (or the CyberCab, we're still not sure about the name). But perhaps the biggest impression was made by Tesla's updated Optimus robots, which freely walked among the crowd, talked to guests, served drinks, played games, and danced.

Musk first announced Tesla’s humanoid robot by bringing what was very clearly a person in a robot suit on stage, so it’s no surprise that the Optimuses (Optimi? Optimodes?) at

During Tesla’s “We, Robot” event last week, which TechCrunch covered late into the night, sources on the ground sent me a handful of videos of the

One of the highlights of Tesla’s “We, Robot” event wasn’t the self-driving cars but the allegedly autonomous robots. Tesla’s Optimus bot isn’t new, but this is the first event where actual robots joined the stage—and the crowd—rather than a person in a robot costume. Or was it?

Tesla, fresh from showcasing its robotaxi, reports earnings next week and analysts at Barclays are calling for a better-than-expected financial snapshot.

Tesla's "We, Robot" robotaxi event last week left plenty of glaring questions unanswered. The flashy event, which appropriately took place on a Hollywood movie lot, saw the Elon Musk-led company show off an early prototype for a "Cybercab,