According to Musk, this prototype can do more than what was shown live, but “the first time it worked untethered was on stage tonight.”
Musk predicted that it could reach a price of probably less than $20,000 and then, in a question and answer session, explained that Tesla is very good at building the AI and actuators needed for robotics based on the experience of Tesla. produce drive units for electric cars.
Musk said that would help him put capable robots into production and begin testing them inside his factories.
He claimed that the difference between Tesla’s design and other very impressive humanoid robot demonstrations is that Tesla’s Optimus is made for mass production in “millions” of units and to be very capable.Initially, the back doors of the stage opened to reveal a deconstructed Optimus that Tesla calls “Bumble C” who walked forward and did a “raise the roof” dance move.
The company later showed some videos of the robot performing other tasks, such as picking up boxes.
The Tesla team then unveiled another prototype showing a “very close to production” version of Optimus with his body fully assembled but not fully functional: he was placed on a stand and waved to the audience, showing the range of motion of your wrist and hand.
Parts with make up Tesla Optimus
Optimus packs a 2.3kWh battery, is powered by a Tesla SoC, and has Wi-Fi and LTE connectivity. The demos focused on addressing the robot’s joints, such as its hands, wrists, or knees.
They showed how they processed the data for each joint, then looked for the common areas in each design to find a method using only six different actuators.
The human-like hands are a “biologically inspired design” that engineers say will make them better suited to picking up objects of various shapes and sizes, holding a 20-point bag and having a “precision grip” on small parts. .
Tesla’s Autopilot software was moved from its cars to the bot and modified to work in the new body and environment.
Tesla’s move captured people performing real-world tasks like lifting a box and then using inverse kinematics, repeat the moves using Optimus
.Then “inline motion adaptation” is applied so that these tasks are not as rigid and can be manipulated to account for an unstructured environment.
The future of robotics
“It will be a fundamental transformation for civilization as we know it,”
Musk said.
Optimus has the potential for “two orders of magnitude” of potential economic output improvement.
Musk first announced the “Tesla Bot” at AI Day last year, promising it would be “friendly” and potentially revolutionize the company’s assembly line and manufacturing business.
Tesla’s history is littered with fanciful ideas that never panned out, like a network of solar-powered superchargers, battery swapping, or robotic snake-style chargers, so no one knows if a production-ready Tesla Bot will ever see the light of day. . .
But the company is where it is today due to the sheer will of Musk. And the reveal of a prototype version of the robot will surely reinforce his stubbornness around his proposals.
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