Tesla’s Optimus robots are going to be late to work. In a tweet Monday, Elon Musk wrote “Tesla can have genuinely helpful humanoid robots in low manufacturing for Tesla inside use subsequent 12 months and, hopefully, excessive manufacturing for different corporations in 2026.”
That’s one more delay for the much-heralded robotic units. In April, Musk had boasted that Optimus units can be working in Tesla factories by the tip of 2024 and deliveries would start to different corporations in 2025.
The Optimus line has a bumpy historical past. Musk declared his intention to make a Tesla robotic in 2021 alongside a human in a skin-tight outfit who did an odd dance on stage. Whereas the corporate has managed to make progress from that time, controversy has adopted it.
Earlier this 12 months, Musk posted a video that purported to point out the Optimus folding laundry, however shut observers seen the robotic wasn’t doing the work by itself, however fairly an individual was utilizing teleoperation nearly simply outdoors the body, in an try to make it appear the robotic was extra superior than it was.
Musk, in fact, has a protracted monitor report of overpromising, particularly with regards to dates and setting deadlines which can be unreasonable. In 2014, for example, he stated he was hopeful the primary folks can be going to Mars in 10-12 years. In 2016, he talked of autonomous automobiles driving from Los Angeles to New York inside the subsequent two years. In 2019, he stated Tesla would have “over 1,000,000 robotaxis on the highway” by the next 12 months. (the product has but to be unveiled.) The Cybertruck was delayed a number of occasions, as nicely. And in March 2020, he predicted the U.S. can be “near zero new [COVID-19] instances … by finish of April.”
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