Elon Musk said the time the humanoid robot Optimus will be on the market will be 2026 instead of next year.
"Tesla will produce humanoid robots in low initial quantities for internal use next year, and hopes to have high production volumes to supply to other companies by 2026," Elon Musk wrote on X on the 22nd. /7.
According to Electrek, Musk's new announcement means his company is late in bringing Optimus to market. Tesla CEO said in April that the company will deploy this robot in the factory by the end of this year and deliver it to partners who have ordered it in 2025.
Musk first announced Optimus in 2021 in the form of a real person wearing a bodysuit. In 2022, the company launched the first prototype, 173 cm tall, weighing 57 kg, equipped with a screen on the face to display information. Over the years, he began to realize this humanoid robot and achieved certain achievements, including the ability to fold clothes, practice yoga or move independently in Tesla's factory.
A month ago, Musk continued to promote the project, saying at a Tesla shareholder meeting in Texas that Optimus would one day babysit the family. However, according to Gizmodo, based on the progress being made, Musk's company may need a long time.
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, taking place July 4-6 in Shanghai, Tesla also displayed Optimus. However, the machine quickly became disappointing when placed in a glass cabinet instead of showing off its features.
Musk expects Optimus to be a catalyst to "raise Tesla's market capitalization to $25 trillion". He predicts that robots will eventually outnumber humans.
In the past, Musk repeatedly promised his products and was late. For example, in 2015, he said Tesla would have fully self-driving cars in three years, but to date there is still no such device. In 2019, he said the brain chip company Neuralink would implant a chip in humans by 2020, but it was only successful earlier this year.
The fact that Musk is often late is even ridiculed. In 2019, a Tesla customer named Maikel Mertens created a website to mock the American billionaire's "punctuality", by calculating "Musk's 6 months will be equivalent to a normal person's two years".
In a 2022 interview with WSJ, Musk said he "had a problem with time." He currently runs a series of companies including Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Company, Neuralink, X and most recently the artificial intelligence company xAI.