Tesla Stock Falls After Elon Musk Frets Over the Difficulty of Building Robots
THE SO WHAT
Market jitters over comments on how hard humanoid robots are to build underscore a broader reality — timelines for general-purpose robots are still highly uncertain. If your 3–5 year plan assumes humanoids in critical workflows, build in contingencies with more mature automation classes.
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