Elon Musk stated Tesla’s AI robotic Optimus will finally ‘value lower than a automobile’ and will result in a ‘future with no poverty’

• Elon Musk stated that Tesla’s AI bot, which debuted on the firm’s AI Day, may have widespread ramifications on society.
• “The potential for Optimus is, I’d say, appreciated by only a few individuals,” Musk stated.
• Musk instructed the group he predicted the Optimus robotic would finally value lower than $20,000.

Elon Musk has lofty objectives for his firm’s deliberate humanoid AI robotic product. 

A tough prototype of the bot, which is named Optimus, made its official debut on Friday evening at Tesla’s annual AI Day by dancing and waving to a crowd.

However Elon Musk predicted that because the bot’s know-how improves, it may have widespread ramifications for all of civilization. 

“The potential for Optimus is, I’d say, appreciated by only a few individuals,” Musk stated.

He went on to say that the present financial system is proscribed by individuals and productiveness, however that an AI bot like Tesla’s may change the calculation. 

If Tesla’s Optimus may deal with guide labor, “an financial system turns into quasi-infinite,” Musk predicted.

“This implies a way forward for abundance. A future the place there isn’t any poverty, the place you might have no matter you need by way of services. It truly is a elementary transformation of civilization as we all know it,” he stated. 

Final yr, when Musk unveiled plans for the bot, he stated it might be designed to do “boring, repetitious” work. 

Whereas the AI robotic seems to be within the extraordinarily early levels, with Tesla’s engineers debuting solely a “tough prototype,” Musk instructed the group he plans to make the robotic at excessive quantity and low value as rapidly as doable. 

“Optimus is designed to be a really succesful robotic however made in very excessive quantity, in all probability in the end thousands and thousands of models, and it’s anticipated to value a lot lower than a automobile,” Musk stated.

“I’d say in all probability lower than $20,000 can be my guess.”