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 also be seen in a video doing day by 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 be capable to stroll proper as much as them, and they’re going to serve drinks.”

Musk explains it will possibly principally “do something” and mentions examples like strolling your canine, babysitting your youngsters, mowing your garden, serving you drinks, and so forth. He mentioned it’s going to value $20,000 to $30,000 “long run.”

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

After the presentation, livestream footage confirmed individuals interacting with Optimus robots at tables and in crowds. Nonetheless, the robots weren’t doing a lot aside from waving within the type 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 may hand over small present luggage 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 undertaking in 2021, when a person in a robotic go well with 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 will likely be a “elementary transformation for civilization.” And he made greater ones for the buyers: 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 hundreds of thousands of items.” Musk mentioned it could value round “$20,000” and permit for “a future the place there is no such thing as a poverty.”