Elon Musk has done it again! The “Technoking” of Tesla has announced another product that billionaires fantasize about: humanoids.
At the company‘s AI day, he revealed that the car-making firm is making a prototype humanoid, and it’ll be called Tesla Bot — the internal codename of the bot will be Optimus. Shocking.
Musk claimed that Tesla is “arguably the biggest robotics company” because its cars are “semi-sentient robots on wheels.” Weird flex, but okay.

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<p>He added that using its experience of building these cars, with multiple sensors and batteries, the company plans to build a prototype by the next year. The Tesla bot is intended to be friendly, but you can<span> “run away from it, and most likely overpower it.”</span></p>
<p>The bot will be able to carry 45 pounds (20 kg) of weight, and walk or run at the maximum speed of 5 miles/ hour (8 km/hour). The <a href='https://tech-computer.com/zh/vm-%e8%a7%a3%e6%b1%ba%e6%96%b9%e6%a1%88' target='_blank'>company</a> doesn’t intend to use this bot in its manufacturing process.</p>
<p>You can look at the presentation of the humanoid below:</p>
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<p>While the prototype is the first step, Tesla wants to “d<span>evelop the next generation of automation, including a general-purpose, bi-pedal, humanoid robot capable of performing tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring.” These are some lofty goals. </span></p>
<p>Musk has had a track record of announcing things that never came to fruition, so don’t get your hopes up about this robot just yet.</p>
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