Elon Musk hilariously explains why Optimus has to learn like a toddler, by playing, making mistakes and getting better over time 😂
“In order for Optimus to get the training data we need, we actually need to make a lot of Optimi. So we need to make, I think, on the order of 10,000 or 20,000 bots and then have them do self-play. We're building up an Optimus academy where Optimus can practice doing a very wide range of tasks
And then we can use that data in a flywheel to make it better and better at these various tasks, a big difference with Optimus versus the cars
Is we don't have this vast fleet of cars from which we can gather training data. So with Optimus, we have to bootstrap it by making the robots and having them do self-play, which is really how a human learns to navigate the world
You can see this when you have a toddler and they grow up and they initially are wobbly and they don't know how to do things, and eventually they, they learn to wipe their own ass, which is a big milestone, because anyone who's had kids knows
And then they learn to read and do all sorts of things and be able to do these things. And they learn this by playing
And we actually need Optimus to play at scale in order to have it be really good at tasks in the real world”
Oct 21, 2026 · 10:52 PM UTC
Everyone laughed but a child being able to go to the bathroom on their own and bathe themself really is a giant milestone. It’s also around the age you can say “wash all the dishes from dinner” and it actually gets done.
It’s the difference between evening being an fun but difficult struggle and it being “I’m going to sit in my chair yall get er done”
Old it's movie released in '85 named D.A.R.Y.L.
Its a good movie about a child "bot".
Do it @elonmusk
Its like when @Naruto_Anime_EN uses kagebunshin to learn a technique. 😅




































