Tesla founder Elon Musk said on Thursday evening that the company is going to present its own prototype of a humanoid robot by 2022. Mr. Musk announced this at Tesla’s conference, Artificial Intelligence Day. The robot called Tesla Bot will look like a human, its height will be 1.7 m, weight – about 57 kg, in place of the face it will have a screen. According to Mr. Musk, such a robot in the future will be able to perform “dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks” that now can only be performed by humans.
“We’re good at sensors and batteries, and we’ll probably have something like that next year,” Musk said as he showed viewers the Tesla Bot project.
As noted by the American media, at various Tesla events, Mr. Musk has repeatedly presented ambitious projects that never materialized. Such projects include the Tesla Solar Roof, which was announced in 2016 and has yet to go into mass production, or the promise to build a million self-driving taxis by 2020.
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