Billionaire Elon Musk expressed agreement on social media with a prediction by fellow technology leaders that there will be about 1 billion humanoid robots on the planet in 20 years.
Musk agreed with Company X (formerly Twitter) to agree with the predictions of David Holtz, founder of artificial intelligence (AI) research institute Midjourney. “By the 2040s there will be 1 billion humanoid robots on Earth, and by the 2060s there will be 100 billion robots (mostly aliens) across the solar system,” Holtz wrote in a post last week. It should be,'' he said.
Musk replied, “If the foundations of civilization are stable, that's probably what will happen.”
Tesla, one of the companies Musk founded, is developing a prototype humanoid robot that the billionaire sees as helping humanity reach his lofty predictions 20 years from now. Maybe.
Tesla Optimus, also known as Tesla Bot, was first announced at the company's AI Day in August 2021, and Musk said the company plans to build a prototype by the following year. “I think over time it could become more important than the car business,” he said of the robot at the time.
At an October 2022 event, Musk said he wants to eventually build millions of Optimus robots, each with an estimated price tag of $20,000. However, there are limits to robots' abilities, Musk said after taking the stage. It never asked me to perform more complex tasks. Because he “didn't want to face it.”
“There's still a lot of work to do to improve Optimus,” Musk said at the time. “I think Optimus will be great in five or 10 years.”
Musk said in 2022 that he hoped to bring the robot to market within three to five years, and that it would be a “very capable” machine once completed.
He told Reuters that building humanoid robots does not “directly align with accelerating sustainable energy,” which is part of Tesla's overarching goals, but that “with the arrival of Optimus, that mission is somewhat I think it will spread, but I don't know.” : Make the future great. ”
