Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event

Tesla was not trying to hide this. The robots were telling anyone who asked that humans were helping control them. Unlike the robotaxis, which were explicitly advertised as autonomous.

Saying otherwise when directly asked would have been an open-and-shut case of securities fraud. They still didn't widely disclose this.

They didn’t say the extent of the control and the event was engineered to lead people to conclude human involvement was minor.

So these robots are not supposed to be autonomous?

Awesome, now show me where is the article coverage (which is generally paid PR) that states this upfront and clearly.

They’re prototype mechanisms that don’t have any sort of significant AI yet. Them having AI was never claimed. They’re shells, with (as shown) extremely fluid control systems, with the smarts to drive them still in development, all of it for a whopping three years now.