Tesla’s humanoid robotic Optimus waved and danced on stage on the firm’s AI occasion. Elon Musk mentioned the bot might do extra, however he ‘did not need it to fall on its face’

• Tesla’s long-anticipated AI robotic made its official debut by dancing and waving on stage on the firm’s AI Day.
• “The robotic can truly do much more than we confirmed you. We simply did not need it to fall on its face,” Elon Musk mentioned.
• Ultimately 12 months’s AI Day, Musk introduced his plans for the bot by having a human in a robotic costume dance onstage.

Tesla’s long-anticipated AI humanoid robotic, Optimus, made its public debut on Friday evening on the firm’s AI Day. 

The bot, which is presently solely a “tough prototype,” in line with Tesla, waved and slowly danced for the group on stage throughout the occasion. 

“The robotic can truly do much more than we confirmed you. We simply did not need it to fall on its face,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk informed the group. 

A video was then proven of the Optimus prototype lifting a field, watering a plant, and doing a little gentle lifting in a manufacturing facility setting.

The idea of Tesla’s AI humanoid bot was first launched at Tesla’s AI occasion in 2021, although in its preliminary debut, the “bot” was revealed to be a human costume. On the time, Musk mentioned the robotic can be designed to do “boring, repetitious and harmful” work.

The prototype Musk introduced at this 12 months’s AI day was constructed with “semi-off-the-shelf” supplies, however he introduced the group with what he mentioned was a completely Tesla-designed model. 

This second bot was carried by a crew of engineers as a result of “it wasn’t fairly able to stroll, however it should stroll in a number of weeks,” Musk mentioned.