Tesla AI Day (AI Day) took place on the evening of Friday (30th) Eastern Time (Saturday, Taipei time), and CEO Elon Musk showed the long-awaited humanoid robot “Optimus” to the outside world. As with other humanoid robots, Musk is not only optimistic that Optimus has more powerful functions and is expected to cost less than $20,000.
A live video showed the humanoid robot Optimus waving to the audience as he took to the stage, and Tesla also showed footage of Optimus performing other tasks at the event, including picking up boxes, watering flowers and moving steel bars.
Musk said that the company’s goal is to produce useful humanoid robots as soon as possible, and there is still a lot of work to be done to prove this. He had expected production to begin as soon as next year.
He said that the current humanoid robots do not have a “brain”, do not have the intelligent technology of automatic navigation, are expensive and low in production. In contrast, Optimus will be a very powerful humanoid robot that can be mass-produced. It is expected to produce millions of units in the future, and the estimated cost is less than $20,000, which is much lower than the cost of producing a car. .
Musk revealed plans for a humanoid robot at the first AI Day last year, but didn’t show a prototype at the time. In order to make Optimus debut this year, he postponed the event date from the original August to the end of September.
On AI Day last year, Musk said that Optimus will perform dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks instead of humans, and it can even be applied to daily life scenarios in the future, including cooking or trimming weeds.
He once boasted that in the future, humanoid robots will surpass electric cars and become Tesla’s most valuable business, and hope to one day surpass self-driving cars.
