Friday 5 August 2022 04:52 PM Elon Musk said people will be 'blown away' by Optimus robot that will be ... trends now

Elon Musk unveiled a new teaser image of his company's Optimus humanoid robot that will be fully revealed at the end of next month.

The tech mogul showed off a picture of robotic hands making a heart shape at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Austin Thursday evening and touted a full reveal of Tesla Optimus at AI Day September 30. 

Few details are known about the robot, but Musk has said it would handle tasks that humans find boring or repetitive and could even serve as a companion.

'AI Day, part two, I think people will be blown away,' Musk said. 'But that's at the end of next month, so we'll leave that - there's gonna be a lot of cool stuff.'

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The Tesla bot, which would be 5'8 and weigh 125 pounds, is set to include the Autopilot computer used in the company's electric cars, which will allow the humanoid to recognize real-world objects, although the robot will have its own customized sensors and actuators.

It will also be able to 'deadlift' up to 150 pounds, carry 45 pounds, walk 5 miles per hour and have human-like hands plus visual sensors giving it the ability to 'see.'

'[You can] talk to it and say, "Please pick up that bolt and attach it to a car with that wrench," and it should be able to do that,' Musk said last August about the robot. '"Please go to the store and get me the following groceries." That kind of thing. I think we can do that.'

Tesla's Autopilot cameras will be fitted in the front of the bot's head and its inner-workings will be powered by the company's Full Self-Driving computer. The bots will be apparently operate

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