A prototype of Tesla’s humanoid robotic named “Optimus” took the stage tonight for the primary time as a part of Tesla’s 2022 AI Day presentation.
With techno music blaring and disco lights flashing, Optimus strolled, albeit fastidiously, in direction of the viewers and lifted its arms in what seemed to be a “increase the roof” gesture.
Wearing a futuristic black leather-based jacket and black pants, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk revealed that “that is actually the primary time the robotic has operated with no tether.”
Musk then defined that the robotic might do rather more than stroll across the stage and wave.
“We simply did not need it to fall on its face,” he joked.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 1, 2022
A video revealed the robotic lifting bins, watering crops, and doing odd jobs round Tesla’s Fremont manufacturing unit.
Musk then launched one other model of Optimus, which is additional alongside within the growth stage and nearer to the mannequin that can go to market. Though this bot wasn’t able to stroll but, it has actuators, a battery pack, and a management system taken from Tesla’s automobiles.
Musk mentioned this robotic will be capable to transfer all its fingers independently and have opposable thumbs, permitting it to carry and function instruments.
“Our objective is to make a helpful humanoid robotic as rapidly as attainable,” Musk mentioned.
Just like the Tesla automobiles, he hopes to make them at excessive quantity and low value. Musk mentioned that is what is going to in the end differentiate his humanoid robots from rivals.
He predicted making the Optimus in “tens of millions of models” at a value of “lower than $20,000.”
“It’s going to be a elementary transformation for civilization as we all know it,” Musk mentioned.
