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Tesla chief Elon Musk has shared new footage of the corporate’s humanoid Optimus robotic, together with an replace on how growth of the robotic is progressing.
The video (above), which was proven throughout Tesla’s annual stockholder assembly on Thursday, exhibits Optimus strolling at a gradual tempo and performing a process autonomously at a Tesla manufacturing unit by which it locations battery cells into crates.
“We’ve made a large quantity of progress with Optimus in a brief time period, from somebody pretending to be a robot dancing in a suit, to a pretty hodge-podgey robot, to a robotic that’s really doing helpful duties within the manufacturing unit at this time,” Musk instructed the viewers.
He stated they at the moment have two Optimus robots working in Tesla’s manufacturing unit in Fremont, California, performing the duty with battery cells that’s proven within the video, including that additionally they have “fairly just a few of those cruising round our workplaces in Palo Alto.”
Musk stated that Optimus will bear “one main {hardware} revision” that can be accomplished by the tip of this yr or early subsequent, which can be adopted by restricted manufacturing of the robotic to be used in its factories, the place will probably be examined additional.
He even predicted that subsequent yr Tesla can have “over a thousand, possibly just a few thousand” Optimus robots working for the electric-car automaker, explaining that Tesla already has the manufacturing, engineering, and AI and software program capabilities to make a hit of the robotic. It’s value noting, nevertheless, that the Tesla CEO’s predictions typically don’t meet his said timeline.
Whereas on this event Musk didn’t touch upon how the robotic will affect Tesla’s human workforce, he has stated beforehand that Optimus could be used to “remove harmful, repetitive, boring duties.”
The billionaire entrepreneur additionally stated the robotic will ultimately develop into extremely autonomous in a method that may let a human colleague give it directions. The robotic will even be capable to study a process just by watching a video of it, Musk claimed.
And in a forecast they’ll concern these fearing a robotic rebellion, the Tesla chief additionally stated that the ratio of humanoid robots to people will ultimately be higher than one to at least one, with Tesla “by far the chief in that.”