Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp · Feb 5, 2026
.@elonmusk told me he plans to build “Optimus Academy” to train an army of humanoid robots.
> “millions of simulated robots in the simulated world”
> “tens of thousands of robots in the real world, to close the simulation to reality gap.”
Why? There’s two big differences betwe
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Pretty much
08:07 AM · February 6, 2026 · 73.7K views
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