Elon Musk
Screengrab from We, Robot livestream
Elon Musk has been working on the Optimus humanoid robot for years. At Tesla’s Robotaxi event last month, the robots poured drinks and played rock-paper-scissors with guests (though they were remotely controlled by humans).
Musk said this summer that Tesla will have “genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production” for the company’s internal use in 2025 and higher production for sale to other companies the following year.
Outside Tesla, Musk personally invested in Vicarious when it was an AI startup working on general intelligence for robots. Vicarious has since been acquired by Intrinsic, an AI robotics company at Google’s parent company, Alphabet.
