On September 30th, Tesla will host an event called AI Day, during which the firm will likely discuss the progress it has been making toward the completely autonomous vehicles that CEO Elon Musk has promised.
However, a robot named Optimus is expected to overshadow Tesla’s automobiles and autonomous vehicle efforts this year. During last year’s AI Day, Musk introduced the “Tesla Bot,” a “friendly” robot that he said would completely transform Tesla’s production process.
Musk has now proclaimed the robot to be “the most important product development we’re undertaking this year,” adding that he believes it has the “potential to be more substantial than the vehicle industry over time.” Musk suggested possible future uses in the kitchen, the yard, and even as “catgirl” sex partners. Next year may see the beginning of production.
In addition to the fact that Musk unveiled the robot by having a human in a spandex outfit dance uncomfortably on stage, there is ample reason to doubt the claims being made. Whether or whether the robot is real won’t be determined after Friday’s event, as Tesla’s AI group has undergone a lot of turnover in recent years. However, you should know that appearances can deceive.
So, let’s get into what we may anticipate from Tesla’s upcoming AI Day.
Tesla Bot
Building a humanoid robot is a no-brainer in Musk’s eyes.
During last year’s AI Day, he made the bold claim, “Tesla is perhaps the world’s biggest robotics firm since our cars are semi-sentient robots on wheels.” “I could see that working on a humanoid body.”
Indeed, Musk’s automobiles are not “semi-sentient”; they need to be constantly monitored by a human driver. Even so, they frequently enough smash into immovable things to warrant repeated government probes.
However, Musk assured us that the Tesla Bot would be “friendly,” equipped with “human-level hands,” “Autopilot cameras,” and a “Full Self-Driving computer” for processing power. The robot would have a height of 5 feet, 8 inches, a weight of 125 pounds, and the “human-level hands” could lift 45 pounds.
Autonomous and Full Self-Driving Vehicles
Even though the Tesla Bot will be the talk of the town, most people will be watching to learn more about the company’s driving assistance technology. Tesla claims that over 160,000 people in the United States and Canada are testing out the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta system, which, despite the name, does not allow for fully autonomous driving. (In the EU, where a higher regulatory hurdle exists, Tesla is unable to use FSD; to gain approval, the company must meet this higher standard.)
To this day, Musk has unable to deliver on his 2016 promise of fully autonomous vehicles. He has shifted from predicting that one million Tesla robotaxis would be operating by the end of the year to predicting that one million people would be participating in the FSD beta program.
Dojo
Beyond the automobile and the robot, Tesla will use AI Day to inform investors and fans about the company’s progress in the field of computing. Over-the-air software upgrades are fed to Tesla users after being trained on a powerful supercomputer. Indeed, it analyses the video feeds from all of Tesla’s over a million camera-equipped vehicles on the road today.
Automaker already has a massive, one of the world’s most powerful Nvidia GPU-based supercomputer, but the new Dojo custom-built computer is powered by Tesla processors. Dojo is the name Musk assigned in 2019 to his “super powerful training computer.”
