Tesla Optimus
Tesla's humanoid robot designed for general-purpose tasks and automation.
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Marc says Tesla is canceling car models to make room for more Optimus robots. Travis sees Optimus as the natural next step beyond the Roadster.
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Marc says Tesla is canceling car models to make room for more Optimus robots. Travis sees Optimus as the natural next step beyond the Roadster.
"The first Roadster is now Optimus. Talk about letting the imagination flourish — that's a beautiful thing."
Described as the natural evolution from Tesla's first Roadster, illustrating founder-driven imagination
"this is why Elon canceled the Model S and the Model X to make room at his Tesla factories for more Optimus robots"
Prioritized over Tesla car models
What creators say
"At Optimus, at the hands, they use a tendon drive which is effectively a muscle emulator. I'd argue his hands are almost definitely going to be subhuman level in strength."
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"That's why, like we discussed a few episodes ago, Elon is building a million Optimuses for next year, going up to 10 million."
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"What happens to all the truck drivers when a Tesla Optimus robot gets its Cybertruck to the truck, opens the door, gets in and drives it off?"
"What's going to happen when you get your Tesla Optimus robot and it has the drive program? So it can drive for you in whatever car you have without..."
"He said that Optimus, the Optimus robot project, will scale to around 1,000 units per week by the end of this year and eventually scaling to 1 million humanoid robots annually by 2027."
More from Steven Bartlett →+3 more mentions from Steven
"How would you run the type of AI that sits in a robot? Let's say one of the Optimus robots, if you didn't have a GPU."
"If he's right about when he says there's going to be more humanoid robots, his Optimus robots, than humans."
"Tesla's dedicated Optimus factory in Giga Texas is rising fast, 7 million square feet with a target capacity of 10 million Optimus robots per year."
More from Peter Diamandis →+3 more mentions from Peter
"You buy the Optimus robots that now do the work for you."
"Famously in the US we've got obviously Tesla with Optimus, we have Figure, we have 1X, and in China probably the robot company that's got the most ..."
"You'll be able to capture these asteroids, bring them into a stable geocynchronous orbit. You can imagine Optimus robots doing the work. You'll have Optimus robots holding American flags walking down the ramp from the Mars colonial transporter."
More from Gavin Baker →"Optimus will be the bestselling, I think, product. I saw a video and I said to him, 'Is this CGI or is this real?' And he said, 'No, this is real. They just sent it to me this morning.'"
More from Jason Calacanis →+1 more mention from Jason
"I spent time with Elon. I've looked at Optimus. I can tell you Optimus is better than what Figure is doing. What Optimus is going to do when Bezos ..."
"Optimus Prime is not running around inside your home fixing your toilet just yet."
More from Will Fry →"Friend of the pod Elon has characterized the Optimus as the ultimate von Neumann probe for the solar system. What role do you see humanoids in constructing Artemis and other facilities elsewhere?"
More from Alexander Wissner-Gross →"The first Roadster is now Optimus. Talk about letting the imagination flourish — that's a beautiful thing."
More from Travis Kalanick →"Elon has this great quote — something like Optimus is the von Neumann probe — and I kind of agree with him. If you can get 100,000 Optimus robots to the lunar surface and get them to build an Optimus factory on the lunar surface, then we're off to..."
More from Philip Johnston →"Optimus — that's Tesla's bet. If Optimus takes off, for example, that could be it."
More from Rory O'Driscoll →"We're going to need a lot of Optimus robots for the Artemis colony and for the Martian colony. It's going to happen one way or another."
More from Dave Evans →"this is why Elon canceled the Model S and the Model X to make room at his Tesla factories for more Optimus robots"
More from Marc Andreessen →
"get even just a basic Optimus robot up there"
More from TBPN →+3 more mentions from TBPN
"he says to reach a pedawatt we'll build an electromagnetic mass driver on the moon with robots like Optimus and humans"
"Khi has a market here. Tesla Optimist released this year. 25.2% chance right now."
"He talks about this being one of the biggest markets of all time and that Optimus is even bigger."
More from Eric Jorgenson →"We've seen some demos of Optimus and figure robots."
More from Scott Galloway →
"When we hear Elon Musk talk about Optimus robots and sort of talk about these big numbers in the future."
More from The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway →"We'll have Optimus 4 design complete next year. Try to release a new robot design every year and improve robot design every year."
More from Elon Musk →+1 more mention from Elon
"we're in the final stages of completion of Optimus 3, which is really going to be by far the most advanced robot in the world. Nothing's even close."
"Tesla's building Optimus which is the robot that can do any of the work that a human could do and once the robot can build more robots that's the infinite money glitch."
More from My First Million →
"There's only two assets that give you that. Self-drive and Optimus. For lack of any information, split it 50/50."
More from 20VC with Harry Stebbings →+1 more mention from 20VC
"someone very brilliant who I'm very close to said to me the other day who's very close to Tesla said they will you will be surprised in 5 years tim..."
"I seen that they also ended Model S and Model X production going all in on Optimus robots."
More from Tom Bilyeu →"when I was on your podcast, I talked about we're going to be the biggest purchasers of the Optimus robot"
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