Tesla kind of just dropped a huge bombshell yesterday showing off the Optimus robot Gen 2 and the progress Tesla has made here is just mindboggling so if we go back just one year in September 2022 Tesla revealed their first prototype of the Optimus robot during the AI Day event at that time Optimus robot looked like a skeleton it couldn't bend its head couldn't do a lot with its hands couldn't even properly walk basically with that prototype reveal Tesla just wanted to reveal that they have entered the robotics industry Tesla established a great robotics team they
worked day and night on their first humanoid robot and after a year they finally came up with the first generation of Optimus robot in September Tesla posted a video revealing Optimus robot gen 1 this robot was a huge leap forward as compared to the Prototype Tesla had revealed back on AI Day event they gave this robot greatl looking hands with so many different movements it could stand on one leg even do some yoga it could sort colored blocks by itself they gave it a human-like body and it also walked pretty much like humans and now
only a couple of months later Tesla has revealed generation 2 of the Optimus robot it is completely built with Tesla's in-house components and man the difference between first and the second generation of Optimus robot is just insane but before we dive further into the details let's just take a look at the official video released by the Tesla Optimus team [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so now the robot can look up and down with two degrees of freedom it has got hands with a lot of different movements just like a human here take a look at this
how delicately it is able to handle the egg and even shift it from one hand into the other so the first thing to really notice here is the pace of progress it is just beyond anything else out there because 2 years ago they had nothing to sh show and now they've got a robot which is capable of handling an egg now what makes Tesla's Optimus robot Stand Out Among all other robots out there is of course its brain because Tesla's Optimus is not being programmed it learns everything by itself just like us humans a senior
engineer working on Optimus robot posted on X a few months back he said super excited to share our team's progress over the last few months we can now accomplish long Horizon tasks such as sorting blocks fully autonomously in a completely task agnostic way so meaning the system is flexible and adaptable it can handle a variety of tasks and programming problems without needing explicit instruction and programming for each specific task he further wrote just collecting more data and we can train a new complex task without changing any code this is really what people need to understand
this Tesla robot is learning and doing tasks without any code or program instructing it what to do it works 100% on machine learning it learns stuff by observing and then tries to perfect Itself by repeating those tasks again and again making a robot learn everything by itself might seem a bit unrealistic right now but with all the AI advancement happening these days it is a highly possible feat now Tesla's Optimus has one big competition in the industry and that is atlas robot built by Boston Dynamics so while Boston Dynamics Atlas robots looks really impressive and
all but it lacks one major element and that is self-learning atlas robot can't do anything outside of what it's programmed to do on the other hand Optimus is built different it can learn stuff on its own there is no manual programming it can train itself from video data in theory it could learn and perform basically anything that is possible with its body including cooking cleaning or driving Etc and that's also the very reason that Tesla designed it in humanlike shape Jim fan a senior AI scientist at Nvidia wrote on X back in September about how
Tesla might be doing all of this in one of his tweets he said so it knows the consequence of its actions that gives the self-correcting ability shown in the demo where one of the Blue Block landed on its side and the robot paused for a second and then corrected its own action and got the Blue Block to sit correctly on the tray he further said it's such a great decision to follow human mythology closely so there is no Gap in imitating humans Atlas from Boston Dynamics only has gripper style hands in the long run Optimus
biodex terity five-finger hands will prove far superior in daily tasks and the new hands on the robot are just looking amazing Elon Musk also posted a reply to Optimus video on Twitter saying so much in engineering has gone into the hands in a year it will be able to thread a needle yes the hands combined with the brain of course are just the most important thing on the robot so it can actually do some useful stuff and help humans the pace at which Tesla has built Optimus robot is shocking for the entire robotics industry if
Tesla succeeds in making this robot bot commercially available it could turn Tesla into a trillion dooll company this Twitter user made a post on X regarding Financial impact of this humanoid robot for Tesla and its shareholders he said imagine the affordability of leasing or renting a Tesla bot once Tesla achieves fullscale production picture this a Tesla bot could be yours for as little as $40 a day with a bot working tirelessly for 16 hours a day the cost break down to a mere $2.5 per per hour so how much profit could Tesla make per bot
well with an annual revenue per bot of $144,000 and 41% net profits Tesla could see an impressive annual profit of $5,895 per bot per year apply a conservative PE multiple of just 30 and the value of each bot to Tesla shareholders skyrockets to $176,000 now this is of course a big prediction for the time being some might think that this is just unrealistic but I think that this is not unimaginable that a working robot will be a onetoone with every human in the world and if Tesla succeeds in deploying 100 million robots in future its
market value will exceed $17 trillion to put this unconceivable big number into perspective the entire world's combined GDP last year was $95 trillion so it's definitely a big number to even think about but remember that Elon also owns a space company SpaceX which is trying to establish colonies on Mars so who knows Elon might send these robots in space to help humans build a world out there millions of these robots could be sent up there for this task so possibilities are basically endless hundreds of millions of working robots or even billions is not completely off
the table so looking at the future of Tesla's future potential and only looking at them as just a car company would be silly at this point Elon is going in heavy to take his slice out of Robotics industry and he seems to be moving in the right direction what do you think about this new Optimus robot give your opinion in the comments below hope you enjoyed today's video see you again next week with another amazing video