During a conference call with investors, E. Musk said he expects Tesla’s Optimus robot to be able to perform tasks during tests at the factory by the end of this year, reports Reuters.
Billionaire Musk has previously said that selling robots could become a bigger part of Tesla’s business than other segments, such as car manufacturing.
“I think Tesla is in the best position of any humanoid robot manufacturer to achieve mass production,” Musk said in an interview on Tuesday.
Musk says Tesla’s Optimus general-purpose humanoid robot should cost “less than half the price of a car.”
Last year, the average selling price of a Tesla car in the world was slightly more than 45,000 US dollars (about 42,000 euros), and the average selling price of a new car in the United States is about 47,000 US dollars (about 44,000 euros), electrek writes. .co.
As previously written by LOGIN, in 2022 Elon Musk unveiled the long-awaited Optimus humanoid robot. Robot Optimus walked on stage as if frozen and slowly waved to the people gathered, CNN wrote.
Tesla also showed videos at the event showing the robot performing simple tasks such as carrying boxes and watering plants. However, Optimus’ abilities seem to fall far short of what rival robots are capable of.
Humanoid robots have been under development for several years by Japan’s Honda and Hyundai Motor’s Boston Dynamics.
Earlier this year, Microsoft and Nvidia-backed startup Figure said it had signed a partnership with German automaker BMW to deploy humanoid robots at the automaker’s plant in the United States.
And that’s another reason Elon Musk hates OpenAI. In March, Figure, a startup partnering with OpenAI to develop a humanoid robot, released a new video. And it really surpasses everything that Tesla has demonstrated so far with the Optimus robot.
The Figure video, available on YouTube, shows a human interacting with a robot called Figure 01. A human talks to a robot, asking it to identify what it is looking at, Gizmodo wrote.
The robot demonstrates incredible dexterity and precision when it first picks up a cup and turns it upside down before placing it back in place. The robot then places the plate in the corresponding edge of the dish drying rack.
Corey Lynch, who works on Figure’s artificial intelligence platform X, was clearly proud of his work as he described the latest developments, stressing that Figure 01 is not controlled by a human.
E. Musk has repeatedly promised to fulfill his bold ambitions for Wall Street, but the promises were just promises. in 2019 he told investors that by 2020 Tesla will operate a network of robotaxi autonomous cars.
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