A bunch of Tesla’s humanoid Optimus robots walked out alongside the reveal of Tesla’s new Robovan vehicle. The updated robot is also seen in a video doing daily human tasks like bringing in a package off the porch.
“The Optimus will walk amongst you,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk qips. He explains you can walk up to them, and they can do things like serve you drinks. “I think this will be the biggest product ever of any kind,” Musk says.
Musk revealed a lighter and faster Gen 2 bot last year. And in an April earnings call he said Optimus will start performing “useful tasks” by the end of this year and could be sold “externally by the end of next year.”
The Tesla bot was not a serious product when Musk first revealed the project in 2021, when a…