Tech mogul Elon Musk has rescheduled Tesla's AI Day from August 19 to September 30. This will be the company's second event of its kind.
Last year's AI Day, Musk said, was intended at attracting top talent to Tesla while also providing insight into the company's progress toward completely autonomous vehicles.
The objective of AI Day, Musk explained in May, is to persuade great AI, software, and chip talent to join Tesla. This year's event should be fairly similar.
According to the tech mogul, "an Optimus prototype might be functioning by 2022."
Tesla AI Day pushed to Sept 30, as we may have an Optimus prototype working by then
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 3, 2022
At the first AI Day, Musk presented Optimus, a human-sized robot that Musk envisions performing routine jobs like grocery shopping.
Musk said in April at the opening party for the company's Giga Texas factory, “This year is all about scaling up production while next year is all about releasing a massive wave of new products."
He called it a scale "no company has ever achieved in the history of humanity" during the presentation.
Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot will also start production in 2023, Musk said, and will be designed to accomplish any task humans don't want to do.
Musk recently issued an ultimatum to the company's employees, telling them that they either start working full-time and stop "phoning it in," or they will be fired.
In 2018, he admitted on the podcast Recode Decode that his position at Tesla and SpaceX required him to sleep on the Tesla factory floor and work more than 120 hours per week on occasion.
He eventually cut it down to about 80 and 90 hours each week.
In a tweet, Musk said that COVID-19's stay-at-home policies had "tricked people into thinking they didn't actually need to work hard."
Musk no longer intends to fund his $44 billion buyouts of Twitter with Tesla shares, according to the Wall Street Journal, after the company's stock has fallen by about a third this year.
0 Comment(s)