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Tesla’s Optimus bot makes a scene at the robotaxi event

Optimus has some improvements.

By Umar Shakir, a news writer fond of the electric vehicle lifestyle and things that plug in via USB-C. The Tesla bot was not a serious product when Musk first revealed the project in 2021, when a man in a robot suit took the stage to perform a silly dance. Musk has loftily promised that Optimus will be a “fundamental transformation for civilization.” And he made bigger ones for the investors: that it’ll bring “two orders of magnitude” of potential improvement of economic output and that it can be “made in very high volume, ultimately millions of units.” Musk said it would cost around “$20,000” and allow for “ a future where there is no poverty.”

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