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It took 6 seconds for Musk to say the magic word. It didn’t work

The Tesla chief executive has a message for shareholders: give me my money and my shares, or I won’t build your robot army. It’s a bold way to play his AI bet.

The human hand, Elon Musk says, is an incredible thing.

While the Tesla chief executive says the company’s Optimus humanoid robot can literally walk in the park, he concedes that designing and making these things is really, really difficult. And the hardest bit of all is getting the robot’s hand and forearm right.

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is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com

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