Elon Musk’s Optimus AI robot pleases visitors by serving drinks; At a cost of around INR 25 lakh

Can you imagine arriving at an event only to see a humanoid robot serving drinks and even posing for photos? Well, “the future” is definitely here, and Elon Musk has a big role in it. At the Tesla ‘We, Robot’ event, attendees were amazed to see Tesla’s humanoid robot—Optimus—serving drinks and chatting while there.

For those unfamiliar, Tesla’s humanoid robot project is not new; first generation. Initial demos were shown in 2021 and Optimus Gen 1 was launched in March 2022 and later, Tesla launched Optimus Gen 2 in December 2023. Since then, we’ve seen robots do countless things—from boiling eggs, folding shirts, doing yoga, and now serving people drinks and having full-blown conversations .

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Tesla Optimus serves drinks: How is it done?

Tesla Optimus is an automatic robot based on artificial intelligence-first approach. It uses a method that allows it to self-calibrate its arms and legs, and uses inference hardware to create fully bipedal robots—that can do things on their own.

Musk even called it “the biggest product ever.”

“It’s just a robot with arms and legs instead of a robot with wheels. And we’ve made a lot of progress with Optimus. And as you can see, we started with someone, um, in a robot suit, and then we’ve progressed tremendously over the years.”

“You really will have something spectacular. Something that anyone can own. So you can have your own R2D2 or C3PO,” Musk said.

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Can you buy a Tesla Optimus and how much will it cost?

Musk is quick to point out that in the future, you will be able to buy a Tesla Optimus for personal use. But how much will it cost? “Probably $20,000 to $30,000 long term,” Musk said. “It will do whatever you want it to do. So it could be a teacher, it could be walking the dog, mowing the lawn, buying groceries, just being your friend, serving drinks—anything you can think of, they will do. And yes, it will be wonderful.”

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