Tesla’s Optimus bot makes a scene at the robotaxi event

A clump of Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robots walked retired alongside the uncover of Tesla’s caller Robovan conveyance astatine tonight's Cybercab event. The robot is besides seen successful a video doing regular quality tasks similar bringing successful a bundle disconnected the porch.

“The Optimus volition locomotion amongst you,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk qips. He explains that you tin locomotion up to them and that they tin bash things similar service you drinks. “I deliberation this volition beryllium the biggest merchandise ever of immoderate kind,” Musk says.

The Tesla bot was not a superior merchandise erstwhile Musk archetypal revealed the task successful 2021, erstwhile a antheral successful a robot suit took the signifier to execute a silly dance. But successful 2022, the institution showed disconnected a crude prototype that gingerly walked onstage.

Musk has loftily promised that Optimus volition beryllium a “fundamental translation for civilization.” And helium made bigger ones for the investors: that it’ll bring “two orders of magnitude” of imaginable betterment of economical output and that it tin beryllium “made successful precise precocious volume, yet millions of units.” Musk said it would outgo astir “$20,000” and let for “a aboriginal wherever determination is nary poverty.”

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