Can Optimus do that? I haven't seen him do it yet, but it'll happen soon. Just like some humans are incapable of it.
MagicLab’s MagicBot Gen1 is a full-size humanoid robot built for industrial and service tasks.
It is about 1.74 m tall, weighs around 70 kg, and has 42 active degrees of freedom, including articulated arms, legs, waist, neck, and hands. Its sensor stack includes 3D LiDAR, two depth cameras, three fisheye cameras, microphones, speakers, Wi-Fi 6, 5G, and Bluetooth 5.2.
MagicLab lists an 8-core CPU plus 100 TOPS AI compute, with a maximum joint torque above 350 N·m and walking speed above 4 km/h.
Visually, it has a silver-and-black humanoid body, a smooth dark visor head, long arms, and human-sized hands. The design is clearly aimed at factories, logistics, guided service, multi-robot collaboration, and embodied AI research.
MagicLab also has the smaller MagicBot Z1, around 140 cm and 40 kg, positioned more as an agile biped for research, education, service, and indoor scenarios.
The CEO of NVIDIA says the world needs robots.
Jensen Huang says general humanoid robots could become the most useful machines because humans built the physical world around their own bodies.
Doors, tools, factories, hospitals, shelves, stairs and workspaces were all designed for human motion.
His point is technical: humanoids need AI that understands the physical world, gravity, inertia, friction, spatial relationships, geometry and object permanence.
Then the CEO of Tesla goes further.
Elon Musk says Optimus could become a better surgeon than the best human surgeons in about three years.
He adds: “Three years. At scale.”
His claim is that there will probably be more Optimus robots that are great surgeons than all surgeons on Earth.
That is where the debate gets serious: humanoids are moving from factory demos to claims about labor shortages, medicine and physical AI.