Tesla boss Musk: At least 1000 Optimus bots will soon be working at Tesla
Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus Bot will become Tesla's most important product. 1000 or more robots will be working in the factories by 2025.
One of two Optimus Bot working in production at Tesla.
(Image: Tesla (Screenshot))
Tesla CEO Elon Musk believes that the company's own humanoid robot Optimus Bot could increase the value of the electric car company by several trillion US dollars. As early as next year, "a thousand to a few thousand" humanoid robots could be working in Tesla's factories, he predicted at the Tesla Annual General Meeting in Texas on Thursday.
There, Musk said that Tesla "will be worth ten times more than the most valuable companies today". So far, these are Microsoft and Apple with more than 3 trillion US dollars. Tesla, whose market capitalization currently stands at just under 618 billion dollars, would have to grow enormously to achieve this.
Musk wants to achieve this with Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus Bot, which he considers to be the company's most important product in the future. Musk made a simple calculation: The Optimus Bot could be produced for around 10,000 dollars and sold for 20,000 dollars. Musk estimates that the market for humanoid robots is around 1 billion units per year. Tesla could secure around 10 percent of this market. This could generate around one trillion dollars in profit per year.
So far, only two Tesla Optimus bots are working autonomously on a trial basis in Tesla production. Musk said in a conference call with investors in April that robots could be used there on a "limited scale" by the end of 2024. According to his forecast, sales to external companies could take place as early as 2025. However, the robot still needs to make further leaps in development for this to happen, as it is currently only used at Tesla to sort batteries, as can be seen in the video of the annual conference from 1:28:56. It remains to be seen how useful this work is for a humanoid robot.
More than just sorting batteries
However, Tesla is in the process of further improving the Optimus Bot. By 2026, it is set to become a customizable robot that can be configured to perform various industrial tasks simply by modifying the software. The robot will learn from videos that show people doing a particular job. Optimus Bot could then adapt this and carry out the work itself.
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However, it is unclear whether this ambitious goal can be achieved. There are still many unanswered questions. Among them is how Tesla intends to build the large number of Optimus Bots in such a short time. Musk said that production would initially be limited, partly because the necessary parts developed by Tesla itself, such as motors, gearboxes and sensors, also have to be manufactured in large quantities first.
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