Tesla demos Optimus walking inside a world model at CoRL, real policy in control
Scobleizer · x · 2026-11-11
At CoRL, Tesla showed Optimus walking through its office and factory inside a world model, with the real deployed policy making every move—not a canned animation.
Key points:
- The robot navigates a generated simulated world, validating the actual control policy
- If generated worlds match reality, Tesla can test every scenario it cares about without touching a physical robot
- Scobleizer predicts Optimus will shock people the way the first ChatGPT prompt did
If this sim-to-real fidelity holds, it could dramatically speed up robot training and validation.
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