“My prediction is next year we’ll have over a thousand, maybe a few thousand, Optimus robots working at Tesla.”
https://x.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1801400924096839732
This was a prediction made during the Tesla 2024 Annual Stockholder Meeting.
I take "working" to mean autonomously deployed in factories and performing productive labor.
1,000Side commentary; it's weird that Elon seems to want this to happen. The point of Optimus is supposed to be that humanoid robots will be "good enough" at a huge range of tasks, because they can interact physically with the world in ways similar to a human. The point is not supposed to be that humanoid robots will be better at assembly line manufacturing!! That's where specialized robots obviously shine. Am I missing something?
@diracdeltafunk I don't really think you're missing something, though presumably he understands what humans are currently doing at Tesla and whether it would be useful to have a few thousand bots around.
I did notice that he focused mainly on "everyone will have a bot to do chores" and not "everyone will have a bot mining raw materials and assembling shit 24/7" at the last shareholder meeting though