Elon Musk did not want Tesla’s AI Bot to “Fall on Its Face” during its Debut

• Tesla’s much-anticipated AI robot, the Tesla AI Day, was officially unveiled by waving and dancing on stage.
• “The robot can do much more than what we have shown it.” Elon Musk stated that we didn’t want the robot to fall on its faces. 
• Musk revealed his plans for the bot last year at AI Day. He had a robot-clad human perform onstage. 

Optimus, Tesla’s long-awaited AI humanoid robot, was unveiled at the AI Day on Friday. 

Tesla said that the bot was a “rough prototype” and that it danced for the crowd. 

“The robot can do much more than what we have shown it. Tesla CEO Elon Tesla said that the robot was capable of doing more than what we had shown it. 

The video showed the Optimus prototype lifting a container, watering a plant and then doing light lifting in a factory setting.

Tesla’s AI humanoidbot was presented for the first-time at Tesla’s AI Event in 2021. But, in its initial appearance, the “bot” wasn’t as impressive. It was revealed that it was a human costume. Musk claimed that the robot would do “boring repetitive and dangerous” work at the time.

Musk’s prototype was constructed with “semi off-the-shelf” materials. However, he presented to the crowd with what he claimed was a fully Tesla-designed version. 

Musk stated that the second bot was being carried by an engineering team because it wasn’t yet ready to walk. However, it will be walking in a few weeks.