Social media, including filmmaker Alex Proyas, criticized Tesla for copying the 2004 movie after the company’s intended robot products were shown.
Last week, Tesla debuted a Robovan and the most recent version of the Tesla Bot, called Optimus, at its large Cybercab Robotaxi presentation at the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. There was a lot of excitement on social media when the three robot products were first revealed, but as soon as the designs were examined, many accused Elon Musk’s company of copying the designs from the 2004 sci-fi movie I, Robot, which starred Will Smith.
There was some acknowledgment of the cross-pollination of ideas because Tesla had given the event the title “We, Robot,” which references Isaac Asimov’s 1950 collection of short stories that serves as the basis for the movie. Nonetheless, a lot of people on social media pointed out how strikingly similar all three of Tesla’s proposed robot offers are to similar items in Alex Proyas’ 2035 Chicago movie.
There are similarities between the NS5 robots in I, Robot and Optimus, a general-purpose robotic humanoid that Tesla is currently creating and named after the Transformers figure. However, what really sparked the constant trolling on social media and even a reaction from Proyas was the fact that the Robovan, a self-driving people mover that resembles the robot delivery vehicle in the movie, and Robotaxi, a self-driving taxi that resembles the Audi RSQ in the movie, also imitated similar vehicles found in I, Robot.
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