Elon's own children hate him. He's probably not the best person to guage whether a robot is capable of interacting with a child or not, let alone educate them.

Who cares what the Musk says. Stop giving that asshole a platform.

"Elon Musk was all smiles during the Tesla shareholder’s meeting.

“It’s, you know, your companion, it can be at your house, it can sort of babysit your kids, it could teach them... be a teacher. It, you know, it can do factory stuff,” Musk said while describing the robot on Thursday.

Musk went on to say Optimus would be like having your own personal robot from the Star Wars franchise."

When are people going to stop falling for this bullshit? Musk's only real skill is bullshitting to increase stock price, so he can continue his infantile fantasy of being The Richest Man. That's all he really cares about.

He probably spends a fortune on nannies. That's why this seems like an important use case to him.

I'll believe that humanoid robots will be a thing, but for auto manufacture on an assembly line, I have a hard time seeing how they're significantly better than the existing industrial robot arms. It just seems like an unnecessary technological risk.

So he's going to hire a TikTok dancer to pretend to be a robot to watch kids?

While the robot's current capabilities fall short of its competitors, Musk's ambitious goals

That's kind of the story across all of his projects now. How in the heck is he still the richest man in the world?

On-topic, this was a central storyline in The Orville, and it didn't end well for the creators.