It's no surprise that Elon Musk, who bought Twitter and later owned it under the name X, sees the platform as his own playground. From time to time, he shares his ideas, sometimes brilliant and sometimes completely crazy, but this time it seems that it's really worth paying attention to what he publishes.
This time, the Tesla CEO has claimed that his company will produce truly useful humanoid robots that will be able to start working in its factories next year. The world’s richest man, who also has a penchant for making overly ambitious claims on social media, is hoping that his robots, dubbed Optimus, will be successful enough to start mass-producing and selling to other companies.
Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX, has previously made bold claims about when the robot, called Optimus, will be ready for commercial use. In 2021 The billionaire said he expected the robot to be ready for use in Tesla factories as soon as next year, 2022. However, as you can imagine, nothing happened.
Optimus stands about 1.7 metres tall and weighs 56 kilograms, so his build is similar to that of an average woman. The robot is designed to do boring, monotonous and dangerous work – his name is a reference to Optimus Prime, the benevolent leader of the Autobots in the Transformers films.
Musk has previously said his goal is to mass-produce the robots for less than $20,000 each, according to reports. Watchman.
However, this would not be the only Musk project that did not work out as the billionaire had planned. In 2019, he said that Tesla would actually produce self-driving taxis the following year. Of course, this did not happen, and at the beginning of 2024 he said that the model would be presented on August 8. But it seems that this will not be the date of the presentation either, because Musk asked the designers to replace the parts, which may not take them two days of work…
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