Altered photo claims to show young Elon Musk with a robot.

Altered photo claims to show young Elon Musk with a robot.
The claim: Image shows Elon Musk standing next to a robot he built as a child.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled a plan in August to build humanoid robots to perform tasks that are "unsafe, boring or repetitive," according to the description on Tesla's website.
Social media users, however, are circulating an image claiming Musk did work in this vein dating all the way back to childhood.
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" #ElonMusk  (on the right) at his  #Tech  school in #SouthAfrica with #Chappie his #Robot he had been building," reads the caption of a post shared to Instagram on Oct.
27.
The Instagram user also asserts the robot Musk built was the same one that appeared in the 2015 dystopian science-fiction movie "Chappie," which was filmed in various locations in South Africa, according to Variety.
The post generated close to 250 likes in a week.