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Elon Musk’s Tesla is developing a humanoid robot – Meet “Tesla Bot”

Tesla will build a humanoid robot called Tesla Bot, CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday 19th of August.

“We’re also good at sensors and batteries and we’ll probably have a prototype next year that looks like this,” Musk said, shortly after an actor in a bodysuit designed to look like a Tesla Bot gyrated wildly on stage. He remarked that the actor was no a real robot, but the Tesla Bot will be real.”

The announcement came during AI Day, a series of tech talks organized by Tesla in California to recruit machine learning expertise.

The Tesla Bot is an example of Musk's showmanship, in which he reveals that Tesla is working on interesting goods that will be released years in the future in order to stimulate backers such as employees, customers, and investors. Often, those announcements don’t happen on the timeline predicted.

For instance, at an “Autonomy Day” event in April 2019, Musk stated that the business would have 1 million self-driving “robotaxis” on the road by 2020. Those robotaxis are no longer visible. Musk staged an event on the backlot of Universal Studios in Los Angeles in October 2016 to showcase a product he termed the Solar Roof. The solar roof tiles on show were revealed to be simply conceptual.

If a humanoid robot works and can perform repetitive tasks that only humans can do today, Musk said, it has the chance to transform the world economy by driving labor costs down.

However, Musk warned that the robot “probably won’t work” at first.

“It’s intended to be friendly, of course, and navigate through a world of humans, and eliminate dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks,” Musk said.

Tesla Bot

 

Musk said the robot, code-name “Optimus”, is based on the same chips and sensors that Tesla’s cars use for self-driving features.

It stands five feet eight inches tall and features a screen in place of the head for helpful information, according to Musk. Tesla created it in such a way that people will be able to flee or overpower it.

Tesla's presentation slides suggest that Autopilot cameras will be mounted in the bot's head. It will be able to carry 45 pounds, lift 150 pounds, and weigh 125 pounds. It can run 5 miles per hour.

Musk said that the robot was not interested to help with Tesla’s manufacturing, but that Tesla is developing a lot of the computers needed for robotics, so it makes sense for Tesla to build a robot.

“It should be able to, you know, please go to the store and get me the following groceries, that kind of thing,” Musk said.


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