What is Tesla Optimus? Your pressing questions, answered

Tesla's Optimus is not a new electric vehicle, as you might expect if you haven't been following Elon Musk's tweets. Also known as the Tesla Bot, Optimus is a humanoid robot concept that Musk announced just last year. There are already two working prototypes, one relying on off-the-shelf parts, and another, more refined version, that uses Tesla's own actuator design. In yet another, world-changing, grandiose plan, Musk described a robot that could soon supplement human labor in factories and potentially free the world from the burden of doing physical work for a living in the distant future. At Tesla's AI Day 2 event, Musk presented two versions of working Optimus prototypes.