According to the latest report, Musk said on Thursday that Tesla will start producing a humanoid robot called Optimus as early as next year (2023). We’re on track to produce the first version of the Optimus Prime robot next year, Musk said at the opening of Tesla’s new car assembly plant in Austin, Texas.
Musk also revealed that Optimus Prime will eventually be able to do things that humans don’t want to do, and said the robot will bring humans an “era of abundance. He is also optimistic that Optimus will change the world and may even be more famous than Tesla, but “it may be hard to imagine.
Tesla first publicly demonstrated the robot, also known as the “Tesla Bot,” at its “AI Day” in August 2021. According to Industrial Securities, this humanoid robot combines Tesla’s AI technology, which is the automatic driving technology based on the predictive ability of the visual neural network nervous system, and the DOJO D1 supercomputer chip with extremely strong computing power.
They are all seamlessly connected, and the delay between adjacent chips is extremely low. The training module achieves maximum bandwidth retention. With Tesla’s own high-bandwidth and low-latency connectors, the computing power is as high as 9PFLOPs ( 9 petaflops). At the time, Musk revealed that Tesla may launch a humanoid robot in 2022.
When Musk first announced the Tesla humanoid robot, he said that the robot would be based on the chips and sensors used in Tesla’s self-driving electric vehicles. According to Musk, “Optimus Prime” is 5 feet 8 inches (about 173 cm) tall, weighs 125 pounds (about 56 kg), walks at a speed of 5 miles per hour (about 8 kilometers per hour), and can lift up to 45 pounds (approximately 20 kg) and will have a screen on the head so that the user can get useful information.