Elon Musk shows off progress on Terminator-like Tesla Bot

By Dean Murray via SWNS

Elon Musk has shown off progress on his Terminator-like Tesla Bot.

The humanoid Optimus robot was showcased on Wednesday, March 1, at the Tesla 2023 Investor Day.

Scenes showed a robot working to repair others in a room filled with spare arms like in the James Cameron sci-fi thrillers.

The Tesla Bots were also seen walking around and performing tasks with tools.

Elon Musk, talking through the scenes, explained: "It's worth bearing in mind that when we did AI day, this version of Optimus didn't walk at all. So the rate of improvement here is quite significant.

Elon Musk has shown off progress on his Terminator-like Tesla Bot. (Tesla via SWNS)

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"It's obviously not doing parkour, but it is walking around, and we have multiple copies, I suppose, of Optimus."

Musk also pointed out that his robot would have real-world AI, making its own decisions like his cars.

He said: "The thing that Tesla brings to the table that others don't have, we're the most advanced in real-world AI. So the same AI that drives the car.

"You can think of the car as a robot on wheels, and this is a robot on legs. I don't think there's anyone even close to Tesla on solving real-world AI."

Tesla's 2023 Investor Day took place at the company's Gigafactory Texas, with investors able to see the firm's "most advanced production line" as well as "discuss long term expansion plans, generation 3 platform, capital allocation and other subjects" with the leadership team.

Musk added: "It's not that helpful to have a humanoid robot if you have to program every action. It needs to be able to walk around autonomously and solve tasks.

"You should be able to instruct it in simple things by showing visually the robot needs to do, or just telling it what to do. That's the key advantage that we have."

Tesla Bot was announced at the company's Artificial Intelligence Day event on Aug. 19, 2021.

Musk has previously said that he thinks Optimus "has the potential to be more significant than the vehicle business over time."