Tesla’s Optimus bot makes a scene on the robotaxi occasion

A bunch of Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robots walked out alongside the reveal of Tesla’s new Robovan automobile at tonight’s Cybercab occasion. The robotic can be seen in a video doing each day human duties like bringing in a bundle off the porch and watering your vegetation.

“The Optimus will stroll amongst you,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk qips. “You’ll have the ability to stroll proper as much as them, and they’re going to serve drinks.”

Musk explains it might probably mainly “do something” and mentions examples like strolling your canine, babysitting your children, mowing your garden, serving you drinks, and so on. He mentioned it should price $20,000 to $30,000 “long run.”

“I feel this would be the largest product ever of any type,” Musk says.

After the presentation, livestream footage confirmed folks interacting with Optimus robots at tables and in crowds. Nonetheless, the robots weren’t doing a lot apart from waving within the model of Astro Bot. There was a desk of drinks — however the Optimus bot was not seen doing greater than holding a cup of ice. Nevertheless, one bot might hand over small reward baggage at one other desk and play rock paper scissors with company. And there was an enclosed gazebo with a bunch of dancing robots inside.

The Tesla bot was not a critical product when Musk first revealed the mission in 2021, when a person in a robotic swimsuit took the stage to carry out a foolish dance. However in 2022, the corporate confirmed off a crude prototype that gingerly walked onstage.

Musk has loftily promised that Optimus can be a “basic transformation for civilization.” And he made greater ones for the traders: that it’ll convey “two orders of magnitude” of potential enchancment of financial output and that it may be “made in very excessive quantity, finally thousands and thousands of models.” Musk mentioned it could price round “$20,000” and permit for “a future the place there isn’t a poverty.”