Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk has a certain habit of surprising and with each new announcement one gets the impression that he wants to raise the bar.
Set aside rockets and cars this time Musk, during the “AI Day” event, presented the Tesla Bot: a humanoid robot that, on paper, should replace human work.
The Tesla Bot – which is expected to debut “next year” – will leverage the company’s experience with automated machines, and hardware and software will also be linked to developments in the Autopilot system for driving assistance.
The robots will be designed to handle “unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks,” the company’s website reads. To try to give legs to the project, we still read on the Tesla website, “we are looking for mechanical, electrical, control and software engineers to help us leverage our experience on artificial intelligence beyond our fleet of vehicles”.
“I think that essentially in the future physical work will be a choice, if you want to do it you can”. The first prototype, as mentioned, should arrive in the course of 2022.
“We are also good with sensors and batteries and we will probably have a prototype next year that looks like this,” said Musk, who in the presentation used an actor in a suit designed to look like the Tesla robot. What will the Tesla Bot look like? “It will be good, of course, and it will live in a world made for humans by eliminating dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks,” assured Musk. So a robot designed to support man, help him in the most demanding jobs, not to replace him. According to Musk, the fully loaded humanoid robot will also be able to do things like go to the store and buy groceries or the like.