Inventor who encouraged Elon Musk to make Optimus says most humanoid robots today are ‘terrifying’
interview Scott LaValley, founder and CEO of Cartwheel Robotics, suspects he may have helped encourage Elon Musk to get into the humanoid robot business. The pendulum is so pegged toward these robots as tools, and as a way of performing tasks and augmenting human labor in a lower-cost way that…
bubmagSeptember 13, 2025