Tesla's Elon Musk blamed an over-reliance on factory robots for sending the electric carmaker into "production cells" four years ago, saying humans are better at certain jobs.
Musk's Texas company is now making ambitious plans to deploy thousands of humanoid robots, known as Teslabots or Optimus, inside its factories, eventually expanding into the millions worldwide, according to job postings.
Buzz is building within the company as Tesla holds more internal meetings on robots, according to the source.
Musk said in a TED talk that robots could be used in homes, making dinner, mowing lawns and caring for the elderly, and even becoming a friend or partner.
The robot business could eventually be worth more than Tesla's car revenue, according to Musk, who is now pushing a vision for the company that goes beyond making self-driving electric vehicles.
On September 30, Musk said Tesla would unveil its Project Optimus, a nod to the powerful and benevolent leader of the Autobots in the Transformers series. He said that the work will start next year.
Tesla faces skepticism that it can show technological advances that will justify the costs of "general-purpose" robots in factories, homes and elsewhere, robotics experts, investors and analysts told Reuters in an interview. According to.
Tesla already employs hundreds of robots designed for specific jobs to manufacture its cars.
"Self-driving cars haven't really turned out to be as easy as anyone thought. And it's the same with humanoid robots to some degree," Sean Azimi, head of NASA's Dexterus robotics team, told Reuters.
"If something unexpected happens, it's very difficult to be flexible and resilient to these kinds of changes."
At an "autonomous" event in 2019, Musk promised 1 million Robotex by 2020 but has yet to deliver such a car.
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