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 car at tonight’s Cybercab occasion. The robotic can also be seen in a video doing day by day human duties like bringing in a package deal off the porch and watering your crops.

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

Musk explains it will possibly mainly “do something” and mentions examples like strolling your canine, babysitting your youngsters, mowing your garden, serving you drinks, and so forth. He mentioned it is 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 fashion 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 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 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 can be a “basic transformation for civilization.” And he made larger ones for the traders: that it’ll deliver “two orders of magnitude” of potential enchancment of financial output and that it may be “made in very excessive quantity, in the end thousands and thousands of models.” Musk mentioned it will value round “$20,000” and permit for “a future the place there isn’t any poverty.”