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Tesla-ChefElon Musk demonstrates robot prototypes
At an event, the electric car manufacturer Tesla presented the humanoid robot called Optimus. This will one day be sold for $20,000.
The robot project will one day be more important for Tesla than car production, says Musk.
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The Optimus prototype moves far more awkwardly than Boston Dynamics’ more familiar humanoid robots, which can run, dance, and jump.
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Tesla has presented the prototype of a robot.
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This will one day be sold for $20,000.
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In the past, Musk had already predicted that the robot project might become more important than Tesla’s car production over time.
The electric car manufacturer Tesla has demonstrated the prototype of a humanoid robot. The machine, with uncovered mechanical joints and cables, took a few steps on a stage at an event on Saturday night and waved to the audience. Tesla is aiming for a price of $ 20,000 for the robot called Optimus, said company boss Elon Musk.
The Optimus prototype moved far more awkwardly than Boston Dynamics’ more familiar humanoid robots, which can run, dance, and jump. However, Musk sees an advantage for the Tesla robot in the fact that it can use the technology of the driver assistance system “Autopilot” to recognize its surroundings, which the company’s electric cars use.
The tech billionaire was convinced that robots might ensure “a future with plenty, a future without poverty”. In the past, Musk had already predicted that the robot project might become more important than Tesla’s car production over time. At the “Optimus” announcement a year ago, Tesla put a human in a robot costume, which caused some ridicule at the time.
(DPA/chk)
