Musk proposes 'real benchmarks' for robots: assembling a Swiss watch while catching a 100mph baseball
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-27
Responding to John Carmack's reality check on flashy robot demos, Elon Musk proposed his own "real benchmarks": a robot assembling a Swiss watch with one hand while catching an oblique 100mph baseball with the other, without looking up. He also floated juggling flaming chainsaws on a unicycle.
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