Key Points
- Elon Musk addresses Tesla’s Optimus robot, which could start selling by the end of 2025.
- The tech mogul calls it a potential sentient human robot that is able to navigate reality.
According to the latest reports coming from Reuters, Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot is still in the lab but it could be ready for selling as soon as the end of 2025.
Elon Musk also said that Optimus could be able to perform tasks in the factory by the end of this year. He reportedly stated that Optimus will be in limited production in the actual factory doing useful tasks, and the robot will become more valuable than everything else combined.
Musk stated that if you’ve got a “sentient human robot” that is able to navigate reality and do tasks in the upper class, there is no meaningful limit to the size of the economy.
As Reuters highlights, humanoid robots have been in development for a few years by Japan’s Honda and Hyundai Motor’s Boston Dynamics.
This year, Microsoft and Nvidia-backed startup Figure revealed that it had signed a partnership with German automaker BMW to deploy humanoid robots in the car maker’s facility in the United States.
Musk also made a reference to the AI abilities and said:
“I think Tesla is best positioned of any humanoid robot maker to be able to reach volume production with efficient inference on the robot itself.”
Tesla released the first generation of its Optimus robot called Bumblebee back in September 2022.
Getting my daily steps in pic.twitter.com/cEE4RBNdfo
— Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) February 24, 2024
Musk unveils Grok 2
Recently, Musk announced that Grok 2, the second variant of his first AI chatbot called Grok-1.5, would become available. Grok-1.5 is the latest model capable of advanced reasoning and understanding long context.
Grok-1.5 is able to process long context of up to 128k tokens within the context window.
The AI-powered language model has an increased memory capacity of up to 16 times the previous context length. This allows it to utilize information from substantially longer documents.