Tesla's humanoid robot has come a long way - it was first revealed just as a human in a suit, and now, Optimus can poach an egg like a real chef. The company shared a clip of its overhauled Generation 2 Optimus robot in a new video, showing the nearly six-foot-tall machine delicately picking up before switching hands and placing it down without breaking the outer shell. The demonstration video also showed Optimus flexing its fingers, doing squats, and walking across the room - activities necessary for when it replaces humans in the workplace. Elon Musk unveiled its robotics ambitions in 2021, teasing the humanoid robot using a person in a spandex suit. A prototype was not revealed until a year later - but the machine was clunky and failed to impress investors.

It wasn't that long ago that putting a robot in your home meant plugging in a Roomba and letting it roam around your floors like a little dust-busting sentry. But now, thanks to lightning-fast developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning, robots are becoming smarter and far more human. And if the futurists of the world have their way, your next robot helper could be a humanoid that wanders your home on two legs. In 2022, we saw huge leaps forward in the world of robotics. At Tesla's 2022 AI Day, the company revealed the first two working prototypes of its so-called Tesla Bot: a walking humanoid called Optimus, built with off-the-shelf parts, and a second, more-advanced version of Optimus that the company wants to put into production.

During Tesla's AI Day event, CEO Elon Musk unveiled a robot that is "intended to be friendly". Musk has been one of the most prominent figures to warn that AI is a "danger to the public" and potentially the "biggest risk we face as a civilisation". In 2017, he even said there was just a "five to 10 percent chance of success [of making AI safe]". Speaking about London-based DeepMind in a New York Times interview last year, Musk said: "Just the nature of the AI that they're building is one that crushes all humans at all games.

Let's look at what has happened to Tesla's stock price recently and explore factors that have played a major roll in the stock's downward movement. We do recognize the market is not always rational, overreact to the news cycle as it attempts to forecast the future months ahead of time. Tesla's AI Day was very technical as the event serves more as a platform for recruiting the brightest minds in the AI space than a display for investors. Many experts were hoping for a clear update on when fully self-driving cars and a working robot would be ready to launch. The Optimus was clearly not yet a working robot, even though Musk speculated that they would be able to mass produce it and sell it for less than $20,000 in three years.

Today I bring you an analysis of Tesla's autonomous humanoid robot, Optimus, unveiled on Friday at AI day 2022. As I always try to do, this is a nuanced take that highlights the good -- and the bad. Last year's AI day was especially exciting because Musk revealed Tesla was working on Optimus, a robot intended to "eliminate dangerous, repetitive, and boring tasks," and capable of following orders expressed in natural language like, "pick up that bolt and attach it to the car with that wrench." Musk also promised they'd have a working prototype for 2022's AI day, which -- given the unrealistic deadline --, hyped some and reminded others of his tendency to overpromise and underdeliver. I was in the latter group. Before we dive into it, let me remind you that AI day is explicitly intended for recruiting purposes: The target audience isn't journalists or investors, but engineers. This means that most news outlets' reviews of the event will be limited in describing the implications and non-incisive in analyzing the shortcomings.

Tesla revealed on Friday a prototype of a humanoid robot that it says could be a future product for the automaker. The robot, dubbed Optimus by Tesla, walked stiffly on stage at Tesla's AI Day, slowly waved at the crowed and gestured with its hands for roughly one minute. Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the robot was operating without a tether for the first time. Robotics developers often use tethers to support robots because they aren't capable enough to walk without falling and damaging themselves. The Optimus' abilities appear to significantly trail what robots from competitors like Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics are capable of.

Tesla's artificial intelligence team took to the stage on Friday evening for the company's second annual AI Day to demonstrate how far their autonomous robot and vehicle research has come. Tesla AI Day 2022 gave us our first look at the Optimus robot strolling around the stage, updates on self-driving software and a first look at the Dojo hardware powering Tesla's AI research. Originally planned for June, Tesla CEO Elon Musk delayed the showcase until September to get the Optimus prototype working. "This event is meant for recruiting AI & robotics engineers, so will be highly technical," Musk tweeted Thursday. Mirroring Musk's stance that the Tesla Bot will be "friendly," Tesla tweeted an animation of robot hands forming a human heart symbol.

Thanks to 1MM readers of this newsletter, I hope that you enjoy the latest AI news, and insights, don't miss the Web3 section at the end! Tesla's long-anticipated AI robot made its official debut by dancing and waving on stage at the company's AI Day. "The robot can actually do a lot more than we showed you. We just didn't want it to fall on its face," Elon Musk said. At last year's AI Day, Musk announced his plans for the bot by having a human in a robot costume dance onstage.

Tesla's previous AI Day included detailed technical explanations of the company's work in a bid to attract leading engineers. He has said that Tesla AI may play a role in computers matching general human abilities, a huge milestone many experts say is decades away and perhaps unattainable. But more limited and easier to develop forms of artificial intelligence -- like identifying emergency vehicles stopped on a highway -- have proven to be a significant hurdle for the company as it pursues its dreams of self-driving cars. Products heralded and talked about sometimes don't perform as designed -- like when Musk showed off the Tesla Cybertruck's supposedly "unbreakable" windows, that promptly broke -- and can't even be bought years later. Musk said Thursday that AI Day would be "highly technical" as it is meant for recruiting engineers to work on artificial intelligence, robotics and computer chips.

After months of tweets and teases, Elon Musk Tesla's new humanoid Optimus robot was slammed by AI and robotics experts during its unveiling on Friday. Despite the high-octane lights and music that surrounded it, the company's human-shaped robot did not deliver bells and whistles at its AI Day presentation in Palo Alto, California. 'None of this is cutting edge,' tweeted robotics expert Cynthia Yeung. 'Hire some PhDs and go to some robotics conferences @Tesla.' The robot was meant to be the star for the tech giant's conference, as Musk claimed it would'be a fundamental transformation for civilization as we know it.'