Musk said Thursday that Tesla will begin producing a humanoid robot called Optimus as early as 2023.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of Tesla's new auto assembly plant in Austin, Texas, Musk said, "We are on track to produce the first version of the Optimus robot next year." ”
However, Tesla has not yet revealed a working prototype of the robot, so it is not clear how complicated the original version of the humanoid robot called Optimus will be.
Musk revealed that Optimus will be able to do a lot of things that humans don't want to do, saying that the robot will bring a "rich era" for humans. He also said optimistically that Optimus would "change the world" and might even be better known than Tesla, but "it may be hard to imagine." ”
As early as August 2021, Musk mentioned that Musk released Tesla robots on Tesla AI DAY. Musk has previously said Tesla will build a humanoid robot that can perform repetitive tasks, and the prototype may be ready next year. At the same time, Musk believes that such robots may alleviate the current situation of labor shortages.
On Tesla's January earnings call, Musk said Tesla's future humanoid robot Optimus is the most important product development project in 2022, and may even be more important than the automotive business, such as the high-profile Cyberruck and other vehicles (including Semi and Roadster).
I think over time, Optimus is likely to be more important than the automotive business.
It is worth noting that compared with the previous readiness time on AI DAY, Musk's latest timetable of "production will start next year at the earliest" is one year later than before. There are also comments that Tesla said that it is absurd to solve all human tasks in a year or two by a robot that has never been publicly displayed.
According to Tesla's robot design, the Tesla BOT is 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 125 pounds (about 56.7 kg), and is equipped with Tesla FSD computers and Autopilot cameras, which will do the last jobs humans want to do in the future.
According to Industrial Securities, the humanoid robot combines Tesla's AI technology, that is, automatic driving technology based on the prediction ability of the visual neural network nervous system, and the DOJO D1 supercomputer chip with extremely strong computing power, because each D1 chip is seamlessly connected together, the delay between adjacent chips is extremely low, the training module achieves bandwidth reservation to the greatest extent, with Tesla's self-created high-bandwidth, low-latency connector, the computing power is as high as 9PFLOPs (900 trillion times).
At Friday's close, Tesla closed down 3 percent, down more than 14 percent year-to-date, slightly more than the NASDAQ's 13 percent cumulative decline over the same period.
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Will humanoid robots be more important than the automotive business?