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Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, recently showed a prototype of their humanoid “Optimus” robot, which uses many of the same Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and sensors as their Autopilot driving assistance system. Optimus made his debut on Tesla AI Day 2022, celebrating the company’s progress in making robots and driverless cars.
Key Takeaways
- Elon Musk displays a prototype of the Optimus robot
- According to media reports, Optimus was first observed at the event pacing all around the stage, with updates on fake self software and an initial glimpse at the Dojo equipment supporting Tesla’s AI research.
- Elon Musk asserts that this human prototype is more potent than what is possible in reality.
- However, it was utilised for the first time untethered at the Tesla AI Day event.
- Additionally, Musk said that Tesla’s Optimus is distinct from earlier, awe-inspiring humanoid robot demonstrations because it is competent and was built for mass production in the “millions” of units.
Tesla unveils Optimus, a humanoid robot for 2027.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, showed off the Tesla Bot, which used to be called Optimus, on Friday. The robot slowly danced around a platform, waving its arms and pumping its legs. Musk said that the price of the robot could reach $20,000 in three to five years.
If you believe Musk, our ultimate goal is to make a humanoid robot that works as soon as possible. He said that Tesla’s assembly lines would be the first place to use it, but that “millions of people” could benefit from it in the future. Even though Tesla’s creation isn’t as cool as others, like Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, which can do parkour, it still took less than eight months to finish. “We have only just begun to learn what the robot can do. We definitely didn’t want it to fall on the floor.” Musk told the joke on AI Day 2022, when Tesla showed off its Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology and robots.
Musk’s long-term goal is to use the same hardware, software, manufacturing, and supply chain advantages that his car company has to make tens of thousands of Tesla Bots. But company predictions should be taken with a grain of salt. Even though Tesla was one of the first companies to make electric cars and helped turn the tide for everyone else, the company has missed a number of its own deadlines.
Tesla & Robot
Even though robotics is still young, Tesla’s prediction that robots will soon be common and powerful makes the Optimus project one of the riskiest in the field. But it may be hard to move forward. Companies like London Dynamics have been working on making humanoid robots for years, but so far, they have only been able to create prototypes. Wheeled delivery robots and Amazon’s Astro, a tablet with a camera for the house, are two examples of the most common type of robot with limited abilities.
AI is good at some things, but self-driving cars like Tesla’s and robots like the ones in the movie I, Robot must consider how different the real world is. Optimus is likely to have a safe start to his life. It will be used first at Tesla’s manufacturing facilities.
The Optimus Robot Prototype
- After a lot of waiting, the Optimus was finally shown as a fully working robot. It can move and wave thanks to actuators on the outside, and it weighs 73 kg. It has a battery that can hold 2.3-kilowatt hours of power.
- The number of people using Tesla’s fully autonomous driving feature has gone from 2,000 in its first year of beta testing to 160,000 this year, according to the pilot team.
- Even though it’s only available in the US and Canada, Elon Musk has said it might be available everywhere in the future.
About Elon Musk
Elon Musk, an American businessman was born in South Africa on June 28, 1971. He was one of the first to start PayPal and SpaceX, which makes rockets and spaceships. Not only was he a big investor in Tesla from the beginning, but he also ran the company as its CEO.
Musk was born in Canada. His mother was from South Africa, and his father was from Canada. He has always been good with numbers and has been interested in business from a young age. He made a video game when he was 12 and rented it to a technology magazine. Musk got a Canadian passport and left South Africa in 1988 because he didn’t want to support apartheid by joining the country’s required military and because he thought the United States would be a better place for him to live.
About Tesla
Electric cars have always been exciting to Musk. In 2004, he put a lot of money into Tesla, a company that made electric cars and was started by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning (later renamed Tesla). Tesla’s first car, the Roadster, came out in 2006. It could go 394 km (245 miles) on a single charge. Musk thought that most early electric cars were dull and slow, but this one could go from 0 to 60 miles per hour (97 kilometres per hour) in less than four seconds. Because of this, it was a sports car.
When the company first went public in 2010, it brought in about $226 million. Two years later, Tesla came out with the Model S, praised by critics in the car business. Since the Model X luxury SUV came out in 2015, the company has gotten even more praise. In 2017, Tesla started making the more affordable Model 3, quickly becoming the best-selling diesel car of all time.
In 2013, Elon Musk proposed the Hyperloop, a compressed air tube that would let a pod with 28 people travel the 350 miles (560 km) between San Francisco and Los Angeles in 35 minutes at a top speed of 760 mph (1,220 km/h), which is almost the speed of sound. As the cost of California’s elevated rail network was expected to be $68 billion, Musk suggested a cheaper and better option. Musk says that if pods left every two minutes on average, the Hyperloop could move the six million people who use that route yearly for only $6 billion. He said he didn’t have time to work on the Hyperloop because he was too busy running SpaceX and Tesla.
