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This bot got hands
Captain Eli@TheCaptainEli· Feb 13, 2026Elon Musk on why Optimus is so brutally hard to build (hardware side):
“The hands are the majority of the engineering difficulty of the entire robot.”
Human hands evolved insane sophistication — ~27–28 degrees of freedom, complex tendon web (mostly forearm muscles), crazy
03:13 PM · February 14, 2026 · 15.2M views
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