Tesla’s Optimus bot makes a scene at the robotaxi event

Oct 11, 2024 10:17 AM - 1 month ago 66298

A bunch of Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robots walked retired alongside the uncover of Tesla’s caller Robovan conveyance astatine tonight's Cybercab event. The robot is besides seen successful a video doing regular quality tasks for illustration bringing successful a package disconnected the porch.

“The Optimus will locomotion amongst you,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk qips. He explains that you tin locomotion up to them and that they tin do things for illustration service you drinks. “I deliberation this will beryllium the biggest merchandise ever of immoderate kind,” Musk says.

Musk revealed a lighter and faster Gen 2 bot past year. And in an April net call he said Optimus will commencement performing “useful tasks” by the extremity of this twelvemonth and could beryllium sold “externally by the extremity of adjacent year.”

The Tesla bot was not a superior merchandise erstwhile Musk first revealed the task successful 2021, erstwhile a man successful a robot suit took the shape to execute a silly dance. But successful 2022, the institution showed disconnected a crude prototype that gingerly walked onstage.

Musk has loftily promised that Optimus will beryllium a “fundamental translator for civilization.” And he made bigger ones for the investors: that it’ll bring “two orders of magnitude” of imaginable betterment of economical output and that it tin beryllium “made successful very precocious volume, yet millions of units.” Musk said it would costs astir “$20,000” and let for “a early wherever location is nary poverty.”

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