Tesla showed the world a video of the Tesla Optimus robot that dances as if artificial intelligence literally flowed in the veins, all without even falling on the dance floor. Welcome to the future, where your next colleague will be a robot. And yes, he will wear sneakers better than yours.
Where were you when Tesla launched its optimus robot on the dance floor? If you lost it, don’t panic, you can always say that at the time you were reading Proust. In the meantime, Optimus performed in moves that you hadn’t even seen at the late party of the last festival. And no, this is not a deepfake. This is the reality imported by a simulation. That’s right, the robot has learned to dance in a world that exists only on your computer, like your alter ego in GTA, only with multiple RAM.
Sim-to-real: a new way of training, without broken limbs
Training a robot in the real world? It takes too long. Too expensive. And there are too many possibilities that it makes it collapse half the laboratory. That’s why Tesla uses simulations, virtual sandbox in which the robot can stumble, fall, test and learn, without damaging your expensive cameras or the ego of your engineer. It concerns the principle of “learning by reinforcement”, which is the scientific term to say: “Test, misses, tries again, but faster than a human being”.
Then? Once the robot is ready, just “transfer it” to the real world and voila, it will be able to dance as if it had grown up listening to Justin Timberlake’s Youtube Sideshow channel.
Dance how do you feel? Yes, because he reigns …
Why dance? Because if a robot manages to coordinate its steel legs, its flexible fingers and its equilibrium logic to turn to rhythm, then it can also move a box without breaking your bottle of Kombucha. Dance is a test that involves all systems at the same time: movement, strength, timing, reactivity, stability. If you can dance the Bachata with someone you’ve just met, then you have a natural talent for social relationships. If a robot manages to do this, then you are officially replaceable.
I was just heating myself foto.twitter.com/JbJ8TxyaAz
— Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) 14 maggio 2025
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Vertical integration or: “We do everything alone because we can”
Tesla pointed everything out. Optimus is handmade (not literally, because they do not have time for crafts), but is completely under the control of Tesla. From screws to algorithms. Why? Because if you want your robot to dance without blocking yourself like Windows 98, then you must have complete control of your body and mind.
It’s like having a phone for which Apple did not produce chips or iOS and then you wonder why it doesn’t work with face id. Tesla knows. That’s why Optimus is a complete internal product. And the result? One of the most fluid, stable humanoids and, let’s say the truth, even a little frightening to date.
What will happen now? Mass production and perhaps also a Tiktok profile
Elon says that this year there will be 10,000 Optimus on the production lines. No, we are not talking about Transformers (even if the name suggests the opposite), but of real functioning robots. First they will work in the Tesla factories. Then, who knows, maybe they will bring you some bags from Hofer or wake up in the morning with a sweet song … and a monthly subscription invoice.
Conclusion: Optimus reminds us that the future is not the future, it is the present
If you thought that the robots were something that can only be seen in the movies, it’s time to wake up. Optimus Danza, learn, includes space. And not at the “Hey Siri” level, but at the level “let’s go to the dance lesson together”.
The question is no longer “we will have humanoid robots?” But “Who will arrive first in the office, you or your competitor?” And the next time you are on the track, be careful … there may be a robot that observes you. And she dances better.
