Tesla will start producing a humanoid robot called Optimus as early as next year, in 2023, Musk said on Thursday,media reported. Musk said at the opening ceremony of Tesla's new car assembly plant in Austin, Texas on the same day, "We are expected to produce the first version of the Optimus Prime robot next year." However, Tesla has not disclosed the work of the robot. prototype, so it is unclear how complex the first-generation version of the humanoid robot, called Optimus Prime, will be.
Musk also revealed that Optimus Prime will eventually be able to do things 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."
Previously, Tesla publicly demonstrated the robot, also known as the "Tesla Bot", for the first time on "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 maximizes 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 could launch a humanoid robot in 2022.
