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Elon Musk predicts Tesla's humanoid 'Optimus' robots will eventually outnumber humans

Tesla's Optimus bot demo video for AI Day
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  • Elon Musk predicted that Tesla's AI-powered humanoid robots would one day outnumber humans.

  • "I don't think there's anyone even close to Tesla on solving real-world AI," Musk said.

  • Musk first revealed Tesla's "Optimus" robots in 2021, though the prototype was revealed to be a person in a bodysuit.

On Wednesday, Elon Musk predicted that the ratio of AI-powered humanoid robots to human beings "might be greater than one to one."

"You could sort of see a home use for robots, certainly industrial uses for robots, humanoid robots," he said.

Musk's musings about AI came during Tesla's first-ever Investor Day presentation, which was held at the carmaker's Austin, Texas, Gigafactory.

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During the presentation, Musk showed an updated video of the company's "Optimus" robot prototype, which Musk said he aims to use in Tesla factories and sell to the public.

"The thing that I think Tesla brings to the table that others don't have is that we have real-world AI," he said.