Elon Musk Unveils $20,000 Optimus Robot at AI Event - ExtremeTech

Musk unveiled Optimus at AI Day 2022 on Friday. "I do want to set some expectations with respect to our Optimus robot," he said. "As you know, last year was just a person in a robot suit. We've come a long way…compared to that, it'll be really impressive." That's a pretty big deal, considering Musk was already quite hopeful about the robot's potential last year. He went on to say that he thinks Optimus could "make a meaningful contribution to AGI," or artificial general intelligence: a type of AI that has the flexibility and problem-solving ability of human cognition.