TECH - Tesla CEO Elon Musk Rejects Idea For Self-Healing Human Skin-Wrapped Terminator-Like Robots: 'Pointless' | Benzinga
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk on Sunday dismissed an innovation from Japan to bind engineered skin to humanoid robots allowing for it to self-heal like the cyborg in the 1984 sci-fi movie The Terminator.
What Happened: “Pointless,” Musk wrote in response to an X user who flagged the innovation from the University of Tokyo. The University said in a statement last month that the innovation, developed by a team led by Professor Shoji Takeuchi, allows for self-healing in robots, among other things.
Pointless — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2024
Musk’s Tesla is already developing a humanoid robot by the name of Optimus which resembles a human with ...