Elon Musk says that he is considering Tesla Bot becoming more than just a humanoid robot to perform useful tasks and to have it potentially develop a unique personality and be a companion.

He says Tesla Bot could make an "incredible buddy like C3PO or R2D2."

Earlier this year, Musk announced plans for Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot equipped with artificial intelligence aimed at completing general repetitive tasks.

At first, it sounded like another one of Musk's jokes, but as we previously reviewed, it is a real project, and Tesla already started hiring for it.

Musk said that Tesla would build the robot to do useful work, and he even suggested that it could help solve the labor shortage.

Elon Musk has high hopes for a future with humanoid robots.

So, Humanoid robots are happening. The rate of advancement of AI is very rapid."

When asked if Optimus could feature in people's daily lives, such as by lending a hand around the house, Musk concurred, saying it'd be a "general focused humanoid."

He said he thinks it's possible that people may one day be able to download their brain capacities into an Optimus.

"We could download the things that we believe make ourselves so unique," he said. "Now, of course, if you're not in that body anymore, that is definitely going to be a difference, but as far as preserving our memories, our personality, I think we could do that."

Musk also spoke about the robot's bipedal design.

"Humanity has designed the world to interact with a bipedal humanoid with two arms and ten fingers," he said. "So if you want to have a robot fit in and be able to do things that humans can do, it must be approximately the same size and shape and capability."