Elon Musk is all about robots. He has likened his self-driving Tesla cars to “robots on wheels.” As for the robots on legs, he has grand plans for eventually selling a humanoid robot named Optimus.
When he showed the prototype last year, Optimus failed to impress artificial intelligence experts and investors.
But that hasn’t deterred Musk, and at Tesla’s Investor Day this week, the billionaire showed off the latest version and made a grand prediction: Humanoid robots could eventually outnumber humans.
“You could sort of see a home use for robots, certainly industrial uses for robots, humanoid robots,” Musk said.
“I think we might exceed a one-to-one ratio of humanoid robots to humans. It’s not even clear what an economy is at that point.”
Optimus is still a long way away from leading the robot revolution. When Musk first introduced it to the public in 2021, it turned out to be a human in a robot suit rather than an actual prototype. In 2022, Optimus had to be wheeled into Tesla’s A.I. Day.
In his presentation this year, Musk showed videos of the new Optimus, which appears to be walking on its own.
Musk isn’t the only one to point out a looming economic disruption because of the A.I. and robot disruption.
Robots have already been rolled out in factories to replace jobs that human beings used to do, and last year saw record demand for automation as companies struggled to hire workers.
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