Tesla will have humanoid robots in low production for the company's internal use next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Monday, months after he announced that the rollout would be by the end of 2024.
The company will have the robots in high production for other companies' use "hopefully" in 2026, Musk said in a post on social media platform X.
Musk had said in April that the Tesla robot, called Optimus, would be able to perform tasks in the factory by the end of this year and could be ready for sale as soon as the end of 2025.
Humanoid robots have been in development for several years by Japan's Honda and Hyundai Motor's Boston Dynamics. Several companies are betting on them to meet potential labour shortages and perform repetitive tasks that could be dangerous or tedious in industries such as logistics, warehousing and manufacturing.
Musk has a history of failing to fulfil bold promises to Wall Street. In 2019, he told investors that Tesla would be operating a network of "robotaxi" autonomous cars by 2020.
Tesla put out the first generation of its Optimus robot, dubbed Bumblebee, in September 2022. This year, the company posted a video of a second-generation bipedal robot folding a T-shirt at the firm's facility.
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OpenAI unveiled its latest model, the ChatGPT-4o Mini, hailed as "our most cost-efficient small model." Sam Altman- OpenAI’s Chief has announced the release on his X account (formerly known as Twitter) and highlighted the model's cost-efficiency, by writing: "15 cents per million input tokens, 60 cents per million output tokens, 82% MMLU, and fast."
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While the service sector has been gaining popularity, it is AI that tops the list. However, it is worth noting that on a sectoral level, the sanitation and construction industries are seeing a maximum increase, with job posts jumping by 160 per cent and 121 per cent respectively since 2022.
Electricians are in high demand, with job posts up by 258 per cent, which has reportedly indicated a boom in infrastructure projects and real estate expansions that require trained craftsmen.
Inputs from Reuters
