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 each day human duties like bringing in a package deal off the porch and watering your vegetation.

“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 might mainly “do something” and mentions examples like strolling your canine, babysitting your youngsters, mowing your garden, serving you drinks, and many others. He stated it is going to price $20,000 to $30,000 “long run.”

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

After the presentation, livestream footage confirmed folks interacting with Optimus robots at tables and in crowds. Nonetheless, the robots weren’t doing a lot apart from waving within the model of Astro Bot. There was a desk of drinks — however the Optimus bot was not seen doing greater than holding a cup of ice. Nonetheless, one bot might hand over small present luggage at one other desk and play rock paper scissors with visitors. 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 swimsuit 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 probably be a “basic transformation for civilization.” And he made larger ones for the traders: that it’ll carry “two orders of magnitude” of potential enchancment of financial output and that it may be “made in very excessive quantity, in the end hundreds of thousands of items.” Musk stated it will price round “$20,000” and permit for “a future the place there isn’t any poverty.”