Tech billionaire Elon Musk isn’t proud of how the media coated a 2021 Tesla manufacturing unit damage report involving a robotic that got here to gentle this week.

Mr. Musk took to X, the social media firm he owns, on Wednesday to complain about what he noticed as deceptive experiences.

“Actually shameful of the media to dredge up an damage from two years in the past resulting from a easy industrial Kuka robotic arm (present in all factories) and suggest that it is because of Optimus now,” he wrote. The humanoid Optimus robots, unveiled final 12 months, are designed to carry out handbook labor.

A lot of Mr. Musk‘s followers joined in on attacking the media protection of the incident. Area fanatic Andrew McCarthy claimed that utilizing the phrase “assault” makes little sense when discussing the actions of a robotic.

“‘Assaults’ implies it decided,” he wrote on X. “That robotic did precisely because it was programmed to do.”

The protection surrounded a just lately disclosed damage report from Tesla‘s Giga Texas facility. In 2021, an engineer there was engaged on a software program replace for a number of robots accountable for carrying aluminum. Whereas the machines have been presupposed to be turned off throughout the replace, one was not.

The robotic pinned the engineer and lashed at his again and arms, leaving him with a gaping wound. Tesla claimed within the report that the worker didn’t want any break day for restoration.

On the coronary heart of Mr. Musk‘s complaints, apparently, was that many retailers conflated Tesla‘s Optimus bot and the Kuka robotic, the latter being the one concerned within the 2021 incident. No Optimus bots are operational at Tesla amenities, for the reason that humanoid robots are nonetheless beneath improvement.

Mr. Musk didn’t try and contradict most of the figures within the media experiences that recommend Tesla has the next damage fee than the remainder of the business.