At a Tesla AI Day event, CEO Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Bot. It’s a humanoid robot, with a prototype supposedly coming in 2022.
Exactly four years ago this month, Tesla CEO and perma-Cassandra Elon Musk tweeted his umpteenth warning about artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. “ If you’re not concerned about AI safety, you should be,” he wrote. “Vastly more risk than North Korea.” And his tweet included an image with the perhaps overwrought prediction that “In the end, the machines will win.” Suffice it to say, though, it wasn’t immediately obvious when he penned that tweet that he would find himself four year later in a position to unveil the Tesla Bot — a “humanoid” robot creation that Musk said his carmaker will probably launch a prototype of next year. “We’re also good at sensors and batteries. And we’ll probably have a prototype next year that looks like this,” Musk said during Tesla’s AI Day event. By “this,” the self-styled Technoking was referring to the actor dressed up to look like a Tesla Bot who’d just showed off some flashy dance moves on stage. Tesla’s website adds more detail.
