Tesla’s second-gen Optimus robotic is the largest information in tech since Mark Zuckerberg grew legs within the Metaverse. Elon Musk claims this robotic will ultimately account for the “majority of Tesla’s long-term worth.” Contemplating the place Tesla was with the robotic at its AI day final yr, Optimus has made huge steps ahead, as the brand new mannequin is quicker, lighter, extra agile, and makes use of delicate sensors in its fingers to select up fragile issues like eggs with out cracking them.

Within the video Tesla launched on Twitter Wednesday, Optimus 2.zero is a way more polished model, with a sleeker case, and much more ominous clean expressionless face. Tesla says the brand new bot is 30 p.c quicker than the mannequin it replaces, and it has misplaced 22 kilos, although many of the video focuses on the brand new bot’s elevated hand dexterousness.

“Optimus will not be a deep thinker at this level,” mentioned Musk again in Could. “Optimus continues to be determining how you can do fundamental stuff. It couldn’t cook dinner some eggs or one thing fairly but. We have to get Optimus to the purpose the place it has affordable agility and might do basic items. We’re aiming for it to begin off doing easy duties which can be boring and repetitive, or harmful – principally, jobs folks don’t wanna do. That’s our objective, and I’m assured we’ll obtain that objective.”

Optimus will allegedly use the identical “FSD” software program as Tesla adopts in its automobiles, and was chargeable for the recall of two million automobiles. Elon says that he plans for Tesla to construct tens of millions of those robots, and each dwelling will ultimately be geared up with a robotic butler or “catgirl” intercourse companion. Again in October of 2022, Elon claimed that ‘manufacturing’ for Optimus may start as quickly as 2023, however clearly that hasn’t occurred, and even this new mannequin isn’t wherever close to manufacturing prepared. Elon has a protracted historical past of over promising and below delivering. A minimum of this one can dance, and it isn’t simply Grimes in a physique swimsuit.

Evaluating this mannequin again to again with its forebears, it appears to be like spectacular; stack Optimus up in opposition to the operating, backflipping, parkour robots that Boston Dynamics is producing, nonetheless, and it already appears to be like like Tesla is behind the eight ball.

I’m not assured that the world’s richest man is all that fascinated by relieving the workforce of jobs “folks don’t wanna do.” These robots don’t essentially want to have the ability to run or bounce to assemble automobiles, so I’m afraid that these bots shall be used to scale back Tesla’s workforce to a minimal. Robots can’t unionize. If these robots get to a degree the place they’ll reliably function the Tesla manufacturing facility, Elon will lastly be alone in his chocolate manufacturing facility with tons of of robo Oompa-loompas.