Tesla boss, Elon Musk, has big plans for his “Tesla Bot” and hopes that they become more than just a humanoid robot to perform useful tasks, but that they can develop a unique personality and be an “incredible companion like C3PO or R2D2”, revealed in the Lex Fridman podcast, published last Tuesday.
“I think the possibilities are endless,” declared Musk. “That personality could evolve to suit the owner, or whatever you want to call it,” he added.
Relieve people from stressful repetitive tasks
Musk reiterated that Tesla will focus on the robot doing “repetitive and boring jobs”, especially tasks that can lead to repetitive stress injuries. , but he said he could be “a very good companion.”
Earlier this year, Musk announced his plans for an initial prototype of the androgynous “Tesla Bot”, nicknamed Optimus, which will be based, according to media, on the same technology as semi-autonomous vehicles of the company.
“Tesla Bot” will be “friendly”
Tesla Bot, who will have hands of Five fingers and it will come in black and white , it’s meant to be “friendly” and built in such a way that “you can run away from it and most likely get the hang of it,” Musk said. “Let’s hope that doesn’t happen, but you never know,” he joked.
According to reports, a screen will replace the face and the android will be controlled by an artificial intelligence system .
“Tesla is arguably the largest robotics company in the world because cars are semi-sensory robots on wheels, ”Musk told an online event earlier this year about Tesla’s advances in artificial intelligence (AI). “It makes sense to put that in a humanoid form,” he added.
On when Tesla could make the robot available, Musk, during the interview with Fridman, did not want to offer an exact date, but it did say that it expects Tesla to have “a decent prototype by the end of next year.”
With information from DW.