Tesla CEO Elon Musk has high hopes for his company’s production of the humanoid robots it announced last year. In his opinion, this business will “worth more than the automotive business, more than FSD (autopilot).” Another major source of income for Tesla will be robotics.
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The 5’8″ (177 cm) tall Optimus robot, built on the latest Tesla neural network developments and the Dojo supercomputer, is designed to perform routine human work both in production and in everyday life. Earlier this month, at the opening of Tesla’s gigafactory in Austin, Texas, Musk revealed that a new wave of products like Optimus would be introduced in 2023.
During a recent Q1 2022 performance report, Musk said that Tesla continues to work on improving the Optimus humanoid robot. submitted in August 2021 during the first Tesla AI Day.
“I was surprised that people didn’t realize the scope of the Optimus robot program, Musk said at a press conference on Wednesday. — The importance of Optimus will become apparent in the coming years.” He noted that this business will bring the company more income than the production of electric vehicles and the sale of autopilot technology.
Recall that Tesla’s advanced FSD (Full Self-Driving) driver assistance system, which uses cameras and computer vision technology to perform some autonomous driving functions, costs Tesla electric vehicle owners about $12,000, or up to $199 per month. And new Tesla electric cars in the US cost between $46,990 and $135,990.
We also add that it took Boston Dynamics 25 years to create the Atlas humanoid robot. In recent years, automakers such as Honda, Toyota and General Motors have also introduced robot concepts, but so far none of them have been able to put them into mass production.
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