Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots stole the show at Elon Musk’s Hollywood splash event Thursday night as they danced on stage, served up watermelon-flavored cocktails and wowed guests with their fun and friendly chat.
After Musk’s presentation, the robots emerged from the split curtains and entered the audience in a single line. The faceless, tall figures with joint-like curves around the knees, hips, shoulders and elbows — can “basically do anything you want,” Musk said.
A bartender bot – who wore a cowboy hat – spoke at a shockingly human pace.
“How’s everyone doing?” he called out now and then, with a hint of a Texas retreat. “How’s it going so far?”
When a customer asked for a watermelon-flavored drink, Optimus double-checked their order: “A watermelon? “Of course you can!”
Optimus can help with everyday tasks like grocery shopping and mowing the lawn, he claimed — but also be part of the family: It can be a teacher, babysit your kids, walk your dog, serve drinks after dinner – or maybe. just be your own friend, Musk said.
“I think this is going to be the biggest product of any kind ever,” Musk said.
The “autonomous assistant, humanoid friend” will cost less than a car — between $20,000 and $30,000 in the long run, he said.
Robots are “something anyone can own,” Musk said.
He previously said Tesla may be able to sell the humanoid robots overseas by the end of next year.
A handful of robots locked themselves in a gazebo on Thursday night, where they danced around a disco ball and fog machine to techno music.
Musk apparently had other robots on the watch, handing out gift bags to guests. Robot Optimus in cowboy hats can be seen in a video taking orders and then pouring drinks from a tap into glasses full of ice.
When an event attendee told Optimus he was doing a good job, the robot looked up in appreciation.
“You want to take a picture?” Optimus asked. Then she made a peace sign with her hand.
Another bot chatted with a human at the event and asked about his hometown.
“I’m from San Jose, probably where you were born in Silicon Valley,” the human event attendee joked.
“This is great! Where do you live in San Jose? Almaden Valley?” Optimus replied.
When the man said he lived in Los Gatos, Optimus said, “Los Gatos, oh, great! Beautiful area. Nice walk, I hear, out there.”
And the robot did not hesitate to answer where he lived.
“Um, I live in Palo Alto right now. This is where they train us, this is where we get our builds and this is where we work with an amazing group of people,” said Optimus.
Another robot played a game of rock, paper, scissors with a guest. She won the match, then started dancing in the crowd.
Despite his ability to talk, dance and serve cocktails, Optimus knows he’s not a real human.
“What’s the hardest thing about being a robot?” asked a guest.
“Uh…trying to learn to be as human as you guys are,” Optimus said. “And that’s something I try to do more of every day, and I hope you can help us become that.”
Musk’s latest Optimus designs are huge leaps from the more hypothetical talks of the project just a few years ago.
During a Tesla event in 2021, Musk introduced his “Tesla bot” – a man in a robot suit who came on stage to perform a dance.
A year later, Musk showed off some real robot prototypes. One of those robots was able to walk briskly on stage, while another was held by a stand as she greeted the audience.
But a promotional video from Thursday night’s event showed Optimus living with a family and contributing to the family.
The robot is seen in the video watering plants, picking up packages from the front door, cleaning the kitchen after dinner, unloading groceries from a car trunk and relaxing with a board game with the family’s children.
Musk has previously boasted that robots will be a “fundamental transformation for civilization.”
They will be mass-produced and allow “a future where there is no poverty,” he said.
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