BENGALURU: You may soon be able to buy an autonomous humanoid robot that can babysit your kids after it’s done cleaning your home, all for the price of a low-end electric car, that’s the future Elon Musk painted at Tesla ’s 2024 annual shareholder meeting in Austin, Texas last week. Musk said Tesla’s Optimus robot, first announced in 2021, is a humanoid robot that is intended to be able to do anything you want it to do. “It can be your companion.
It can be at your house; it can sort of babysit your kids and teach them. It can do factory stuff.” Musk also said that Tesla is already using Optimus robots in the production of its electric cars.
“We have two Optimus robots in our Fremont factory that are doing basically...
taking cells off the end of the line and placing them in a shipping container. We actually have quite a few of these cruising around our offices in Palo Alto,” he said. The billionaire did a little jig as he came on stage with many shareholders rising to their feet and shouting ‘Musk, Musk’.
Every major pronouncement by him was met with loud applause, drowning out criticism by some of Musk’s huge pay package that came up for voting. Musk predicted that everyone in the world is going to want the AI-powered humanoid robots when they release, and that the demand could push Tesla’s valuation to $25 trillion. “I think we could make one for a cost, at a really high scale, of about $10,000.
It’d be less expensive than a car. And I think if yo.
