Humanoid Robot: Elon Musk wants to eliminate boring tasks with 'Tesla Bot'
Now we look to the future. At Tesla's AI day event, Elon Musk announced they are developing Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot, life size. It's a slim human-like machine. The body is white with gray accents from its feet to where its collarbones would be then it's all black. Musk shared a couple of slides showing what to expect from the Tesla Bot. He assures that his creation will be friendly and navigate a world that's built for humans. We'd be looking at a five foot eight robot, weighing only 125 pounds since it is built out of undisclosed lightweight materials. It will be able to carry 45 pounds or deadlift a 150 pounds. A little bit of reassurance is that the Tesla bot is not fast. It reaches speeds of up to 5 miles per hour. Musk joked that you could actually run away from it and if necessary overpower it. The head would feature a screen to provide information to whomever is looking at the bot and uses Tesla's full self-driving computer with an autopilot sys...