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Tesla on Friday revealed a prototype of a humanoid robot it said could be the automaker’s future product.
The robot, named Optimus by Tesla, walked awkwardly on stage at Tesla’s AI Day, slowly waving at the crowd and gesticulating with its hands for about a minute. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the robot worked without a tether for the first time. Robotics developers often use tethers to support their robots. This is because the robot cannot walk without falling and being damaged.
Optimus’ abilities seem to fall far short of competing robots such as Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics. The Boston Dynamics robot has been seen doing his back flips and performing his sophisticated dance routines without a tether.
“This robot can really do more than we showed it,” Musk said at the event. “We didn’t want it to fall to the surface.”
Tesla also showed videos of the robot performing simple tasks like carrying boxes and watering plants with a watering can.
Musk claimed that the robot would “probably” cost less than $20,000 if mass-produced.Tesla maintains Optimus advantage The ability to navigate independently using technology developed from Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” driver assistance system and cost savings from learning about manufacturing from the automotive division outperforms competitors. (Tesla’s “fully self-driving” doesn’t yet have the ability to drive fully autonomously, so it needs a human who is alert, alert, and ready to take over the driving at any moment.)
Tesla has a history of aggressive price targets that will never be reached. The Tesla Model 3 has long been promised as a $35,000 vehicle, but that price was only available for a very short period of time and was not available directly on the website. The most affordable Tesla Model 3 is currently $46,990. When Tesla unveiled his Cyber truck in 2019, it was a pickup truck that is no longer available for purchase and was priced at $39,990, but the price has since been removed from Tesla’s website. rice field.
Tesla AI Day is primarily intended as a recruitment event to attract top talent to join the company.
Musk argued that the robot could transform civilization. The robot on display Friday, despite its limitations compared to its competitors, is a robot Tesla unveiled a year earlier than the one that made people in his suits jump on stage and dance around. was also much better.
“‘Last year it was just someone in a robot suit,'” Musk said before the robot took the stage. ”
Tesla is not the first automaker to develop humanoid robots. With Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics, Honda has been working on a robot called “Asimo” for nearly two decades. In its final form, Asimo was a child-sized humanoid robot capable of unrestrained walking, running, climbing stairs, and manipulating objects with his fingers.