Tesla Bot

Tesla recently announced plans for the Tesla Bot — a lifelike, bipedal humanoid robot that will be designed to perform dangerous, repetitive or just plain boring tasks to make everyday life less of a drudgery. Considered to be a logical extension of the same technologies that power Tesla’s semi-autonomous cars, Tesla Bot will be equipped with similar processors, sensors, batteries and actuators. But instead of a self-driving car, Tesla Bot will look like a human at 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 meters) in height, 125 pounds (57 kilograms) in weight and with a top speed of 5 miles (8 kilometers) per hour. It’s been designed to be somewhat slow and not too powerful so as not to be able to overpower its humans.

Tesla Bot will also utilize artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities like multi-camera video, neural networks and neural net planning that will enable it to perform tasks without requiring explicit training. A prototype is expected to be released in 2022.