But can it ride a Segway?

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OPTIMUS: Musk's 'Biggest Product of All Time' Will Do Your Dishes

A new humanoid robot demo just dropped — and the most impressive part is how boring it is. Following verbal, natural-language instructions, Tesla's battery-powered Optimus can take out the trash, sweep up a mess, and even tear a single paper towel off the roll with eerily human precision.

Tesla engineer Milan Kovac said Tuesday, "One of our goals is to have Optimus learn straight from internet videos of humans doing tasks," and that the company had recently had a "breakthrough" along those lines. He said that Optimus "can now transfer a big chunk of the learning directly from human videos to the bots."

Impressive, sure — but Tesla still lags Boston Dynamics and Agility Robotics in sheer physical capability. That hasn’t stopped Tesla chief Elon Musk from declaring that Optimus will be "the biggest product of all time by far."

At the expected retail price of “$20,000 — $30,000” I’ll do my own dishes, thank you.

And of course, there are still some kinks to be worked out, just like the last “revolutionary”gadget, the now defunct Segway scooter.

The company was bought by the British self-made millionaire Jimi Heselden in 2009.

Ten months later, the 62-year-old died after the Segway he was riding careered off a 9m (30ft) cliff near his country estate in West Yorkshire.

Here’s a competitor’s experimental robot experiencing a few growing pains: