33 Comments Tesla has released a new video of its Optimus humanoid robot achieving a new milestone: walking autonomously outside. Fans are rejoicing at the progress, but the video reminds us of something else. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been telling shareholders that Optimus is a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity for the company. Musk believes that Tesla is going to eventually produce tens of millions of Optimus robots per year. Tesla is already using some robots inside its factory and Musk suggested that Tesla could start selling the robot to outside customers as soon as next year. He has been guiding a price between $25,000 and $30,000 per robot. However, some people have been having doubts, especially after Tesla wasn’t super transparent about the fact that its robots were remotely operated at its recent ‘We, Robot’ event. Tesla has been releasing frequent updates about the progress made in developing its humanoid robot. We recently reported on an impressive new hand for Optimus. Now, Tesla has released a video of Optimus walking outside: Milan Kovac, Tesla’s head of Optmius, commented on the video: These runs are on mulched ground, where I’ve myself slipped before. What’s really crazy here is that for these, Optimus is actually blind! Keeping its balance without video (yet), only other on-board sensors consumed by a neural net running in ~2-3ms on its embedded computer. The video is extremely similar to a video Boston Dynamics posted more than 8 years ago: That puts things into perspective. Electrek’s Take As I have often stated, I believe that Tesla will achieve useful humanoid robots at scale faster than unsupervised self-driving. Top comment by TheCyberKnight