Tesla Bot Optimus is Finally Revealed, But It’s No Gentleman

The Tesla Bot Optimus is exactly as expected for better or worse, it is no gentleman

Tesla bot Optimus was finally revealed and as expected it was the worse as one had imagined. Tesla bot was first announced last year at the Tesla AI Day event by Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla. It's said that these are just the first steps toward humanoids by Tesla.

Tesla unveiled the prototype of Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot, Optimus, which is a genuine robot in the strictest sense rather than a real person wearing an odd costume. According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the robot carried out some fundamental tasks for the first time without the need for support or a crane, including briefly walking and then raising its hands. Tesla's bot revealed Optimus making it economically wise but strategically questionable for the future of this robot. Elon Musk also said that in the coming years "Optimus" will make more money than self-driving cars and any car business.

In reality, the brief demo that Tesla's robot gave during the occasion barely matched and didn't surpass a sizable number of humanoid robot demonstrations from other firms over the years, most notably Boston Dynamics. Furthermore, the connection between FSD and Optimus is at best shaky.

Despite being simplified by Tesla's presentation, the subject expertise is rather sophisticated. Oversimplifying the relationship does a disservice to the enormous body of research and development work that has already been done on the issue. Bipedal robots handling pedestrian routes are a different beast from autonomous vehicle routes.

Tesla sees this as a connected problem that, if pursued, will produce efficiencies the market will value. The truth is that there is still more convincing to be done before it can be said with certainty that the connections go deeper than first appears.

Not to mention that Autopilot (and more especially, FSD) faces difficulties due to distrust from the general public and regulatory scrutiny. That kind of potential risk is unnecessary for a robot that you interact with frequently and close by.

Tesla may have given its man-in-a-suit real actuators and processors, but it still has a way to go before it can deliver on its claim that it will be a commercial product with a sub-$20,000 price tag that any of us would ever be able to afford.