Elon Musk Says Tesla Could Start Selling Optimus Robots by the End of Next Year
Optimus Expected in Factories by Year’s End: Musk hopes to begin commercialization phases with Tesla, focusing on production centers.
Humanoid Robots Gaining Traction: Increasing level of demand for automation solutions among a broad spectrum of industries.
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has affected the tech world with his statement about the possible release date of the company's robot – Optimus, which might occur by the end of 2023.
This event made its mark at one of the recent investor conferences which turned out to be a new development for Tesla's strategic focus from automotive to superior robotics.
Industry-Wide Robot Integration
Human robots, which have tanks in the growth, are already the core of innovation in multiple sectors. The firms predict that these robots will indeed tackle the risk of labor shortage and robotize the usual menial tasks such as inventory, distribution, commercial, or manufacturing processes.
Although still an early stage, the introduction of Tesla’s Optimus robot, as well as scalable autonomous vehicles from competitors like Honda and Boston Dynamics, should be regarded as a milestone in this radical technological revolution.
Tesla’s Robotics Ambitions
Placed in bold Musk has recently proclaimed that the revenue of its robot sales could go far beyond that of cars of the company one day. According to Musk, Optimus seeks not only to streamline Tesla's operational processes but also to surpass its competitors in volume production with efficient inference on the robot itself, which utilizes the company’s most advanced AI capabilities.
This statement is a solid representation of the company's readiness to be a dominant player in autonomous vehicles market, despite Musk’s reputation for being overly optimistic. This includes his prior unreleased self-driving vehicles – aka “robotaxi” – promised by 2020.
While the technology world stares wide-eyed, the Tesla humanoid robot may either lead the way for robots in industrial automation or add to the already known failures of trying to predict and succeed with big technological projects.