Tesla also showed off a more completed version that includes body paneling, which the company hopes to be soon producing in the millions of units and selling for less than $20,000.

To be fair, Friday night's demonstration was the first time that Optimus has been shown off in public as well as the first time that it's walked without the aid of a safety and control tether. Yeah, compared to that, it's going to be very impressive.

As you know last year, it was just a person in a robot suit. Even as the developmental prototype plunged its way on stage, Musk had to caveat.ĮLON MUSK: I do want to set some expectations with respect to our Optimus robot. In that, it is no longer a person in Spandex. Now, 13 months later Musk has made good on his word. Musk also claim that by 2022, Tesla would have an operational prototype ready to show. It'll both move at five miles an hour and carry up to 45 pounds, despite standing under six feet tall and weighing 125 pounds. It will understand complex verbal commands and have human level hands. And it will be capable of working safely around humans without extensive prior training, Musk said. The Optimus will operate an AI similar to the company's autopilot system, you know, the one that keeps chasing stationary ambulances. And true to form, Musk immediately proceeded to set out a series of increasingly incredible claims about what the platform's future capabilities would be. Now, the first Optimus, again, skinny guy in a leotard, not an actual machine, it debuted in August of last year. Like, how the Cybertruck will have unbreakable windows and that without labor costs.ĮLON MUSK: It's not clear what an economy even means at that point. And when it is, it will revolutionize the economy by eliminating the limitation on capital. At last year's Tesla AI Day, CEO Elon Musk ushered a person in a Spandex suit onto the stage and told us that it was a robot, or at least would, probably- well, be one eventually.

The system has come a long way in just over a year. Tesla debuted an actual, mechanical prototype of its Optimus robot on Tesla AI day 2022.

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