The "bromance" between United States President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk was on full display on Tuesday when the White House South Lawn was transformed into a miniature Tesla showroom. Musk lined up Tesla cars to showcase the electric car producer's latest innovations while Trump promised to brand anyone vandalising a Tesla car a "domestic terrorist" following reports of a spate of vandalism and arson attacks on Tesla cars across the country. Trump, known for his strong stance on domestic manufacturing and business leadership, has given Musk a prominent role in his new administration as leader of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which claims to have uncovered "billions and billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse" in the US federal government – claims for which Musk and Trump have yet to show significant evidence. Meanwhile, Tesla shares, which are listed on the NASDAQ, are floundering. On Monday this week, they plummeted by 15 percent to end the day at 215 – the worst day for the stock since 2020 and its lowest level since Trump won the presidential election in November.

Elon Musk will be pleased that his surprise jaunt to China on Sunday garnered many glowing headlines. The trip was undoubtedly equally a surprise to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had been scheduled to offer Musk the red carpet on a long-arranged visit. The billionaire blew off India at the last minute, citing "very heavy Tesla obligations." Indeed, Tesla has had a tumultuous couple of weeks, with federal regulator slap-downs, profits halving, and price-cut rollouts--yet, in a very public snub that Modi won't quickly forget, the company CEO made time for Chinese Premier Li Qiang. Tesla needs China more than China needs Tesla.

Tesla's Optimus is not a new electric vehicle, as you might expect if you haven't been following Elon Musk's tweets. Also known as the Tesla Bot, Optimus is a humanoid robot concept that Musk announced just last year. There are already two working prototypes, one relying on off-the-shelf parts, and another, more refined version, that uses Tesla's own actuator design. In yet another, world-changing, grandiose plan, Musk described a robot that could soon supplement human labor in factories and potentially free the world from the burden of doing physical work for a living in the distant future. At Tesla's AI Day 2 event, Musk presented two versions of working Optimus prototypes.

It may sound rather supernatural! But a "driverless" car – not a self-driving vehicle –parked at a gas station in India started moving on its own and rammed into a two-wheeler, dragging its driver and the pillion rider for several meters. The shocking incident was captured on the surveillance camera. It happened in the city of Guwahati in the northeastern state of Assam on Nov. 8, Network 18 reported. The vehicle did not appear to be a self-driving model. Warning: The video may be disturbing to some readers.

'Scout', a six-legged autonomous home-delivery robot by Amazon, started delivering packages in Snohomish County, Washington, for the first time in January 2019. Scout, like a good samaritan, used the sidewalks to travel. Upon reaching its destination, Scout would stop at the front door of its customer and open the lid so that the customer could collect their parcel. However, three years later, before Scout could fulfil its potential to be fully autonomous, Amazon just scrapped the whole project. Amazon spokesperson Alisa Carroll said there were aspects of the programme that weren't meeting customers' needs.

After a study showed that the autopilot feature of Tesla cars will run over children but not Elon Musk, diehard fanboys are defending the company. In a bizarre case of fanboy hive mind, the Tesla mob claims that these tests should use real, breathing children instead of dummies. That's right, these fanboys believe in Tesla and Elon Musk so much that they want real children to be put in harm's way just to prove that this technology isn't dangerous, even though it clearly is. Yesterday, a Twitter video went viral, showing that Tesla cars on autopilot still won't stop for children in 2022. However, it will stop for Elon Musk.

More than 750 Tesla owners have complained to US safety regulators that cars operating on the automaker's partially automated driving systems have suddenly stopped on roadways for no apparent reason. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration revealed the number in a detailed information request letter to Tesla that was posted Friday on the agency's website. The 14-page letter dated 4 May asks the automaker for all consumer and field reports it has received about false braking, as well as reports of crashes, injuries, deaths and property damage claims. It also asks whether the company's "full self driving" and automatic emergency braking systems were active at the time of any incident. The agency began investigating phantom braking in Tesla's Models 3 and Y last February after getting 354 complaints. The inquiry covers an estimated 416,000 vehicles from the 2021 and 2022 model years.

Tesla and Elon Musk are aiming for a new product called "Tesla Bot" to help people in the following areas: Tesla bot is an AI-based, highly complex future product that Elon Musk presented on Tesla AI Day. This product leverages all of the sensory capabilities of Tesla cars, such as cameras and also AI hardware and algorithms currently used in Tesla's Full Self-Driving feature. Similar to other Musk's products, the Tesla bot could also be a revolutionary product. An Android robot is a humanoid robot that is very similar to a human. We already know that Android robots are manufactured and used for research activities.

Nearly 150,000 Tesla cars are using the company's new "safety score," a tool rolled out last month to determine whether owners can access the beta version of its "Full Self-Driving" software, executives said during its third quarter earnings call. While 150,000 cars are now part of the Full-Self Driving (FSD) beta enrollment program, a fraction of drivers have been given access to the software. Only 2,000 drivers have been able to test the FSD program over the past year. Earlier this month, Tesla rolled out version 10.2 to around 1,000 additional owners with perfect safety scores. Tesla charges $10,000 for the FSD software, which CEO Elon Musk has promised for years will one day deliver full autonomous driving capabilities.

A few weeks ago Tesla unveiled the latest mad creation spawned from the head of Elon Musk at their most recent AI conference. Previous greatest hits include "why can't we reuse our rockets?", "let's nuke Mars to terraform it" and my personal favorites "why can't we fire people in a vacuum tube at hundreds of miles per hour?" and "what if we graft a computer to your brain?". This time Tesla have truly outdone themselves when they asked what if we try to leapfrog Boston Dynamics? the result is the Tesla bot. So what is this new tech set to revolutionize the world of work?