Don’t hold your breath waiting for Tesla Inc‘s (NASDAQ:TSLA) much-hyped Optimus humanoid robot, as skepticism arises post-earnings report, with an analyst questioning its viability and existence.
Gordon Johnson, analyst at GLJ Research, was talking on Benzinga’s PreMarket Prep about Tesla’s underwhelming earnings report, delivered on Wednesday after the market close.
When asked about the company’s recent unveiling of a humanoid robot, he said: “We now know it was a fake – there was a guy out of shot on the video controlling it – Where are we at with humanoids? I don’t think it’s ever coming.”
He added: “Elon Musk comes up with a lot of these products that are years out, but he doesn’t execute on them. It’s not like he promises and delivers late, he doesn’t deliver at all — but there’s always this carrot that he puts out there.”
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