Tesla’s Optimus bot makes a scene at the robotaxi event

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 day by 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 to stroll proper as much as them, and they’re going to serve drinks.”

Musk explains it could mainly “do something” and mentions examples like strolling your canine, babysitting your youngsters, mowing your garden, serving you drinks, and so on. He mentioned it’s going to price $20,000 to $30,000 “long run.”

“I feel this would be the largest product ever of any type,” 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 type 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 may hand over small reward 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 severe product when Musk first revealed the venture in 2021, when a man in a robot suit 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 might be a “basic transformation for civilization.” And he made greater ones for the traders: that it’ll deliver “two orders of magnitude” of potential enchancment of financial output and that it may be “made in very excessive quantity, in the end tens of millions of models.” Musk mentioned it might price round “$20,000” and permit for “a future where there is no poverty.”