Elon Musk showcased the latest version of Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robot at the company’s Investor Day 2023 and it was capable of walking untethered. The ultimate goal for Tesla is for its robotic business to overtake its automobiles in terms of revenue. Musk believes that Tesla has the most advanced real-world AI technologies, hinting that future iterations of Optimus will be able to walk around autonomously and solve tasks.
Optimus may be used in Tesla factories around the world before it becomes commercially available to the public. We imagine that some type of AI language model will be implemented, but that most likely won’t happen until the second or third version of the production model. However, it may still be a while until Optimus gets upgraded with GPT-3 automated speech recognition, like Ameca.
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The actuators in Optimus are all custom designed Tesla actuators. We designed the electric motor, the gearbox, the power electronics, obviously the battery pack, everything else that goes into Optimus. We were quite surprised to find how little was available off the shelf. There’s a vast number of electric motors and gearboxes and whatnot available in the world, and we found none of them were useful in a humanoid robot,” said Musk.
