﻿Tesla Robot Price & Release Date LEAKED! Imagine: A humanoid robot in every household,
ready to fulfill our every want and whim. Chores like tidying up, making dinner, and mowing the
lawn could be outsourced to AI robot butlers that have total knowledge of every family member, room,
and object in the home. That’s a vision of the near future that Elon Musk outlined at the TED
conference. In this video, we will be making you privy to everything that’s known about Tesla’s
Optimus Robot, as of yet! A Much-Awaited Update
At Tesla's latest earnings call recently, Elon Musk provided an update on the company's Optimus
humanoid robots and the expectation to launch a prototype version soon. Humanoid robots have
been showing up on and off for several years, but most of them are little more than glorified
bobble-heads, with no real functionality apart from looking the part. However, Tesla's upcoming
bots might be a little different. The world has seen a series of humanoid robots over the years,
including the bipedal Atlas robot developed by Boston Dynamics. The company even released a video
showing the machine tackling an obstacle course that included balance beams, vaults, and more.
While humanoids that do parkour and gymnastics are great to watch, they do not necessarily have
great use in the real world, something that Tesla's upcoming bot promises to change.
Elon Musk said that the expectation is that Tesla's Optimus robots will help resolve future
labor shortages. According to Musk, they might be deployed to move parts around the
factory or chores that might reduce the need for manual labor. The Tesla bots will reportedly be
w. They will also run on the same AI technology that powers Tesla's autopilot system. According
to media sources, Musk also expects the robot business to be more valuable for Tesla than its
current vehicle business, despite high-profile releases like the Cybertruck and the Roadster
expected to happen in the coming years. Musk further expects the first job for the Optimus
robots will be inside Tesla’s own factories. First Prototypes Expected This Year
Tesla first announced its humanoid robot during its AI Day event in 2021.
According to the company, the bot will be designed to handle tasks that are either too mundane or too
dangerous for humans. It will reportedly be able to deadlift 150 pounds and carry 45. The company
further added that the robots might also be able to do grocery runs for their human masters,
although that was quickly mocked by online commentators with references to dystopian
sci-fi movies. While Tesla has yet to come out with a prototype of its proposed Optimus humanoid,
it has released concept images that show the robot as a sleek bipedal machine,
resembling an average human. The Optimus humanoid robot is still in the
concept stage, which means it is still a long way away from entering mass production. Musk, however,
said that Tesla will reveal the first prototypes of its new bot in 2022, although there's no exact
ETA just yet. There's also no final word on the pricing for now, but for companies wanting to
put these machines into action, they are unlikely to come cheap. In the meantime, there will likely
be more news about Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots in the weeks and months to come.
Performing Repetitive Tasks While Musk announced the robot last summer
at Tesla’s AI Day, a series of tech talks hosted by the company to recruit machine learning talent.
In the announcement, Musk brought an actor dressed in a body suit
designed to look like the robot onstage and had him dance for the audience.
Musk said the goal was to create a machine that could drive labor costs down.
“It’s intended to be friendly, of course, and navigate through a world of humans,
and eliminate dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks,” media reported Musk saying at the time.
Musk said that he envisioned a future where the robot could run errands for its human owners as
well. “It should be able to, you know, please go to the store and get me the following groceries,
that kind of thing,” he said. No Threat to Humans
Musk, who in the past has warned about the dangers of artificial intelligence,
also said that the robot was being designed so that humans will be able to outrun it or overpower
it were something to go wrong. “As you see Optimus develop, everyone’s going to make sure it’s safe,”
Musk said earlier. “No Terminator stuff or that kind of thing.” It will carry a maximum of 45
pounds, lift 150 pounds and will move at a maximum speed of 5 miles per hour. Its face will be a
“screen for useful information.” ‘Most Important Product’
Musk earlier this year ranked Optimus as a higher priority than other hotly
anticipated Tesla products, including the Cybertruck pickup and the Tesla Semi.
It remains to be seen if Tesla will be able to deliver on Musk’s promises, however. Gary Marcus,
an AI researcher, told media he was skeptical that Optimus could live up to the hype by 2023.
“Tesla has not even (after years of effort) come close to reliably solving
one relatively simple task (driving); to claim that a robot that has never been shown publicly
will solve all of human tasks in the next year or two is preposterous,” he said.
Perfecting Tesla’s AI for Self-Driving Cars Putting a robot in every household, is in part,
meant to help Tesla perfect its autonomous vehicle technology AI. In 2017, Musk said that his
driverless vehicles would be able to travel from Los Angeles to New York City without incident by
the end of that year. His prediction didn’t happen because the artificial intelligence didn’t develop
as quickly as he’d hoped. “It took me a while to realize that in order to solve self-driving,
you really need to solve real-world AI,” Musk said. “The point you solve for a car—which is
really a robot in four wheels—you can just then generalize that to a robot on two legs.”
Accelerating Hiring for Optimus Project Tesla is ramping up hiring for its Optimus
robot project as it starts using its AI expertise to develop its “overall humanoid software
architecture”. It feels like the Tesla Bot project went from a side project for the company to a top
priority in a very period of time. When Tesla announced the “Tesla Bot” project at its AI Day,
Elon Musk presented it as something the company could do by leveraging existing work
and parts from the development of self-driving technology, and if they don’t do it, someone
else will. At the time, it certainly didn’t sound like a priority for Tesla and many saw it
mainly as a recruitment tool as the automaker is trying to boost its AI team to deliver its
full self-driving system. A few months later, the project’s priority level went up quite a bit.
Price of the Optimus Robot As the humanoid robots useful functions expand,
Musk believes Tesla will see a decrease in cost while Tesla scales production of Optimus. As for
the price of Optimus Elon Musk had this to say: “I think the cost is actually not going to be crazy
high, like less than a car.” Unfortunately, Elon Musk did not say the make or model of
the car he used as a basis for Optimus’ price. However, it has been suggested around $25,000.
That begs the question that has been in the minds of quite a few people since Tesla unveiled
Optimus: how would it affect the job market. Musk has repeatedly said that Optimus will
initially be made for dangerous, monotonous jobs. However, as Tesla’s humanoid robot
gains more advanced functionalities, a few people have wondered about its effect on the job market.
People are arguing that the price of a humanoid robot worker would be much lower
yearly compared to a human employee. Plus, a human worker would not be able to work the same
long hours as a humanoid robot and would not want to go on vacations.
“I wouldn’t worry about putting people out of the job thing,” Musk replied. “I think we’re
actually going to have and already do have a massive shortage of labor. So I think we’ll
have not people out of work, but actually still a short of labor even in the future.”
That’s all for this video, folks! See you another time!