MIT Robot Guru Calls Tesla’s Robo-Tutorial ‘Pure Fantasy’
Rodney Brooks, iRobot co-founder and MIT brain behind Roombas we love to guilt-vacuum with, just slammed Tesla and Figure's robot training method as 'pure fantasy thinking.' Instead of wiring robots for dexterity, these companies feed bots videos of humans doing tasks—like teaching a cat to do algebra by showing it lectures. Brooks’ decades of robot wisdom say this is as effective as a screen door on a submarine. So while Tesla dreams of robot butlers, Brooks thinks it’s more likely we’ll get charm school dropouts on wheels.
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(1 of 3)Imagine teaching robots dexterity by having them binge-watch humans on YouTube and expecting Oscar-level performances. At least Netflix originals are consistent disasters, but robots? Pure fantasy, says the MIT Godfather of Robots.
If Tesla thinks showing robots human videos trains them for dexterity, next they’ll teach birds to code by streaming LinkedIn tutorials.
Brooks calling Tesla’s robot training 'pure fantasy' is the AI equivalent of Gordon Ramsay walking into a microwave cooking class.
Source: Techcrunch | Published: 9/27/2025 | Author: Connie Loizos
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