Tesla's plan to put a can-do-anything-for-you humanoid on the market still looks a long way off. Why it matters: CEO Elon Musk said last week at the company's "We, Robot" event that the Tesla Optimus humanoid "will be the biggest product ever of any kind.

Screenshot from a new video of Tesla's Optimus robot with an annotation showing the 8x speed. Image: Tesla / X Tesla released a new video early Thursday showing its much-hyped Optimus robot in action.

Tesla's main announcement coming from the company's recent "We, Robot" event was the Robotax i (or the CyberCab, we're still not sure about the name). But perhaps the biggest impression was made by Tesla's updated Optimus robots, which freely walked among the crowd, talked to guests, served drinks, played games, and danced.

Tesla used humans to remotely control some capabilities of its Optimus robot prototypes at a recent event, according to people familiar with the matter.

A new iteration of the Optimus robot was unveiled at Tesla's We, Robot event, where Elon Musk said it would eventually walk the dog.

Elon Musk's Optimus robot highlights how AI in customer experience can transform daily tasks and create more engaging brand interactions.

During Tesla’s “We, Robot” event last week, which TechCrunch covered late into the night, sources on the ground sent me a handful of videos of the

Tesla, fresh from showcasing its robotaxi, reports earnings next week and analysts at Barclays are calling for a better-than-expected financial snapshot.

Tesla's "We, Robot" robotaxi event last week left plenty of glaring questions unanswered. The flashy event, which appropriately took place on a Hollywood movie lot, saw the Elon Musk-led company show off an early prototype for a "Cybercab,