Elon Musk gave a timeline at tesla 2022.8.3 Cyber Rodeo, which took place in Giga Texas, for production for the first time for the Tesla Optimus project, a lifelike robot capable of performing basic activities. The company’s CEO thinks the ambitious project may be brought to production as soon as next year. Even for him, it’s a very aggressive timeline.
Tesla Bot renamed Tesla Optimus
Tesla announced the “Tesla Bot” project at its A Day event last year, with Musk describing it as something the firm might accomplish through existing efforts and components from the self-driving technology development. He also added that if they don’t do it, someone else will. At the time, it didn’t appear like a top priority for Tesla, and many thought it was simply utilized as a recruiting tool since the company is attempting to increase its AI staff to deliver its complete autonomous driving solution. The project’s priority level went up dramatically in a few months.
In 2022, Elon Musk said that Tesla is putting a premium on developing Tesla Bot, which he has renamed Optimus. The CEO was visibly more enthusiastic about the project and its potential to influence labor shortages and, eventually, the overall economy. Although Tesla was aiming to have a prototype of the humanoid robot ready by the end of 2022 when it first announced the project, there was no talk of a manufacturing timeline just yet.
Musk’s announcement at Tesla 2022.8.3 Cyber Rodeo event
Musk offered his first production schedule for the Tesla Optimus for the first time today at Cyber Rodeo, and it’s even more aggressive than usual:
“I think we have a shot at being in production for version 1 of Optimus hopefully next year.”
Musk added about Tesla Optimus during the Cyber Rodeo event:
“It will upend our idea of what the economy is… it will be able to do basically anything humans don’t want to do. It will do it. It’s going to bring an age of abundance. It may be hard to imagine it, but as you see Optimus develop, and we will make sure it’s safe, no Terminator stuff, it will transform the world to a degree even greater than the cars.”
Following a surge in enthusiasm from the CEO over the previous few months, this is a strong signal of approval. Musk predicted that Tesla may play a role in making Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) real through his humanoid robots initiative back in January. Then, only a few weeks later, Tesla’s AI director, Andrej Karpathy, claimed he believes “Tesla Bot is on track to become the most powerful AI development platform.”
It seems like the project has swiftly progressed from something Tesla could do to a world-changing venture that is now a top priority for the firm.
