At Tesla AI Day, Musk shows an Optimus humanoid robot prototype that he claims shares AI software and sensors with Autopilot and will “probably” cost under $20K
and it walks on its own Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : Tesla debuts an actual, mechanical prototype of its Optimus robot Argam Artashyan / Gizchina : Elon Musk Showed Optimus Humanoid Robot Walking Without Assistance Hyunjoo Jin / The Irish Times : Elon Musk reveals humanoid robot prototype as Tesla plans to produce millions Livemint : Tesla humanoid robot walks out onstage, waves at Elon Musk: Watch here Rohail Saleem / Wccftech : Significant Achievement: Tesla Managed To Transform Its Vision for the Optimus Robot From Ground-zero to a Dancing Robot in Under a Year Lora Kolodny / CNBC : Elon Musk shows off humanoid robot prototype at Tesla AI Day Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch : Tesla's robot strategy is inextricably tied to its Autopilot strategy, for better or for worse Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo : Optimus, the Tesla Bot, Is Finally Here. Sorta. Well, at the Very Least It's Not a Guy in a Suit. 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Welcome to the future! https://twitter.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : Musk has made a number of absurd claims in his career but this one is likely to age the poorest. https://twitter.com/... @tante : This really is just a design thing (strip away the outside layer of existing machines). The fact that this is reported breathlessly as innovation shows how little many people know about the beats they cover. https://twitter.com/... Zoe Kleinman / @zsk : None of the most impressive robots I've seen so far have ever been humanoid. There is no need for them to be. But there's an obsession with creating machines in our own likeness. https://www.bbc.com/... Nicholas Weaver / @ncweaver : It really, REALLY is remarkable how stupid Pony Stark is being with “Optimus”. The hypothetical target is industrial use. If you have an industrial workspace that is fully utilized 8-hours a day, you put in a fixed arm or two instead. Replace a man->Pay for it in a year. Nicholas Weaver / @ncweaver : But it DOES make sense if the goal is to keep the Tesla Grift going. Experts look at this and laugh: the gimp suit last year made more sense. But Tesla's stock is insanely overvalued, and they are starting to get their ass kicked by everyone else. So Pony Stark needs more hype. Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : Musk presentations are sort of the opposite of Steve Jobs presentations: They're better and more clarifying with the sound off. https://www.theverge.com/... Ben Collins / @oneunderscore__ : He envisions a lot of things that don't happen. https://twitter.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : major own-goal for Tesla's Optimus project is that 1939 Westinghouse Elektro was more capable — it could smoke! https://www.youtube.com/... Chris Owens / @lordscavamungus : Elon is performing a valuable service to society by ostentatiously and persistently reminding us how profoundly full of shit tech CEOs are. https://twitter.com/... Parker / @pt : Maybe they can add LiDAR to it and train it to drive around your Tesla? https://twitter.com/... Russ Mitchell / @russ1mitchell : So the robot dancer last year was there to set the bar as low as possible. @politireality : OMG this is just sad, Elon's admitting he has no idea that robot will ever work...if $TSLA were a $25B company doing all these science projects it might be considered interesting yet irresponsible. When a $1T company does it, it's just irrelevant. $TSLA $TSLAQ @joshpade : The only thing missing from the Tesla AI event was actual smoke and mirrors. They are so far behind on robotic technology if this is a keynote presentation. Roxy / @roxytall : wow they invented a robot geriatric https://twitter.com/... Greg Wester / @gwestr : Wow so no FSD dojo data center, negative progress on full self driving, autopilot customers dying every month for 28 months in a row, and a completely totally morally bankrupt Elon Musk saying if this doesn't fit the bill fire me I can do one better. Jail time. @cacukck : The Tesla bot can barely stand on it's own and 3 humans had to roll it out. This looks like a high school science project built in a garage. $TSLA https://twitter.com/... E.W. Niedermeyer / @tweetermeyer : Elon Musk's entire schtick now is making a demo, smirking about how the companies who have already done a lot of work to get past the demo stage have “hit the wall,” and then never even getting far enough to hit the same wall before finding a buzzy new domain to repeat the cycle. @boy2000fan : I'm hearing rumors circling that at AI day $tsla is going to unveil some sort of robotic blood testing machine that can perform unlimited tests using just small@amounts of blood. $tslaq Cassandra / @chriswarcraft : The Muskbot looks like the project of that one kid who always waited for the last day of summer vacation to start their three month homework assignment @chiawatchitgrow : You know innovation is dead in Silicon Valley when $TSLA builds a robot that Toyota and Honda already built 17 yrs ago. @weegiegeek : The Boston Dynamics people don't need to worry quite yet, Tesla's robot walks like it's shat itself. Daniel J. Willis / @bayareadata : I made the mistake of Googling this and Boston Dynamics would have been embarrassed by it in 2009. Does anyone really think Elon freaking Musk can do in like 18 months what the entirety of Boston Dynamics has been doing for over 15 years? https://twitter.com/... Oliver Darko / @oliver_drk : I dunno. Tesla's robot prototype is far less impressive than similar projects. https://twitter.com/... @steinkobbe : hype vs reality https://twitter.com/... E.W. Niedermeyer / @tweetermeyer : Tesla making remarkable progress from “weirdo in a suit” to “janky demoware closely attended by three grown men,” hard not to conclude that this company is going to dominate robotics https://twitter.com/... Andy Altman / @theandyaltman : So far Tesla AI day has taught me that the most busy people at Tesla may be the animators. @timbarnes451 : Elon Musk reveals 80s boombox. claims it's an android @nycsouthpaw : congrats to Elon for developing the world's first robot that looks like it needs to take a big ol' dump https://twitter.com/... James Bareham / @happicamp : Honestly, Boston Dynamics must be in hysterics right now https://twitter.com/... Ketan Joshi / @ketanj0 : It's going to be incumbent on all of us to ensure any of these existing in public end up operating briefly as a boat https://twitter.com/... Rory Cellan-Jones / @ruskin147 : Musk on what his robot promises: “A future where there is no poverty. Where people ... You can have whatever you want in terms of products and services.” “It really is a fundamental transformation of civilization as we know it,” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : Lol what exactly is meant by “working” here https://twitter.com/... James Poniewozik / @poniewozik : OK, I need an ad agency to come up with a full campign pitch based on the tagline “Will Not Overpower Humans” https://twitter.com/... Grady Booch / @grady_booch : “It'll be a fundamental transformation for civilization as we know it,” said Musk. “No, it won't” said everyone else. This also I know: Elon is a charlatan. https://www.theverge.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : critics say robots will steal our jobs, but they couldn't be more wrong. we'll actually need three humans to hold up each robot. this is a job creation machine! https://twitter.com/... Brian Kibler / @bmkibler : Tesla has said that full self driving is “coming soon” for at least six years, so don't hold your breath on this one https://twitter.com/... Adam Holisky / @adamholisky : This looks like shit compared to Boston Dynamics. Honestly why even showcase it. Embarrassing. https://twitter.com/... Scott Wainner / @scottwww : Boston Dynamics took 30 years to get there. Tesla has had 6 months. Boston Dynamics is also costly at $75k for a robot dog, and hasn't scaled. Cool dancing TikTok's, though! https://twitter.com/... @mrinaldesai : HUGE Facebook competitor in making meaningful connections and close friends!! Should have been called Optiverse, IMHO! https://twitter.com/... Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz : Let's see the Tesla bot bust a pole dance like the stripper robots at CES 2018 https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Faiz Siddiqui / @faizsays : Musk's language around the Tesla Bot was techno-utopian “This means a future of abundance. A future where there is no poverty. You can have whatever you want in terms of products and services.” “It really is a fundamental transformation of civilization” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Lance Ulanoff / @lanceulanoff : Last time we saw Optimus, it was little more than a mannequin #TeslaAIDay2 https://twitter.com/... Tom Warren / @tomwarren : How it started: How it's going: https://twitter.com/... Gene Munster / @munster_gene : They're parading bot engineers to talk about each hurdle to build the bot. Remind's me AI Day is a recruiting event. Vala Afshar / @valaafshar : The transfer of AI knowledge from the vehicle to the robot positions Tesla as the most qualified company to deliver a useful and highly functional humanoid smart robot. https://twitter.com/... @jimharris : Tesla designed humanoid actuator to lift half ton piano Here it is lifting a piano This actuator will in Tesla bot #AIDay2022 #TeslaAiDay #Robotics #robots https://twitter.com/... @techau : Each Teslabot hand has 5 fingers, 6 actuators, 11 degrees of freedom, adaptive grasp. #AIDay @Tesla https://twitter.com/... @themartinirita : I think the focus is manufacturing the cheapest most efficient robot Tesla talking about reducing the actuator choices globally by optimizing on life and multi use https://twitter.com/... @teslaownerssv : Tesla is using the same autopilot software for the bot as it uses from the car. Obviously different learnings etc. but a lot of the work on making a car autonomous is being used for the bot to get around. @elonmusk Jaime Rivera / @jaime_rivera : Not creepy at all.. https://twitter.com/... @kt_so_it_goes : when you don't tell your parents about the science fair until the night before https://twitter.com/... Dave Karpf / @davekarpf : I would bet Elon $44 billion that this turns out to be bullshit misdirection, but we all know he'd refuse to pay. https://twitter.com/...