Tesla CEO said next-gen Optimus robot design will have many upgrades

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, said that the next-gen Optimus robot will see major design upgrades to improve its operational capabilities and the overall output compared to the existing design.

Over the past year, the Optimus team has demonstrated new capabilities such as:

• Opening the cabinet
• Push the microwave button
• Opening/Closing the curtain
• Ironing cloths
• Placing an object into a place
• Cleaning the whiteboard
• Watering the plants

These and more similar tasks are performed by a single neural net and learned from human videos. This mechanism has helped the company to get faster results in the training program, and more improvements are being made to make this process faster.

Musk’s statement comes at a time when Milan Kovac, Vice President of the Optimus program, has announced his departure from the company.

Tesla Optimus Robot carrying Payload (Source: Tesla)

He revealed that a new advancement in the Optimus program allowed Tesla to feed a large chunk of learning directly from human videos to the robot.

“This allows us to bootstrap new tasks much faster compared to teleoperated bot data alone,” He said. This is heavy in operational capabilities. Tesla is training new skills and movements in Optimus’s brain, and more actions are coming soon.

Tesla usually reveals new Optimus robot technologies at AI day and the next-gen version could be unveiled later this year.

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