While Mr Musk did not comment directly on the recent scrutiny being given to the safety of Tesla's technology, he did express confidence that the firm would achieve full self-driving with higher safety levels than human motorists.Įarlier this week, US safety regulators opened an investigation into Tesla's driver assistant system after a spate of accidents in which Tesla cars crashed into police cars and a stationary fire truck while on autopilot.

The AI Day event came amid growing concerns over the safety and capability of Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' advanced driver assistant system, which is powered by a combination of in-car cameras and computers. While it is unclear how much the 'Tesla Bot' will ultimately retail for, Mr Musk said that it would be important not to make the machine 'super-expensive'.

The automaton, he added, will address labour shortages and have 'profound implications for the economy.' Mr Musk said that the robot would stand at around five feet, eight inches tall and could handle jobs from picking up groceries to bolting together cars with a wrench. The entrepreneur made the revelation during Tesla's AI Day event yesterday, which was livestreamed from the firm's Palo Alto, California-based headquarters.

Tesla may launch a humanoid robot next year, designed to handle dangerous, repetitive, or boring work people don't like to do, CEO Elon Musk has announced.īut if the creepy, featureless android sets off your robophobia, fear not - the 125 lb machine is designed so that humans could overpower it if needs be.įurthermore, the bot only has a top speed of 5 miles per hour, which would make it easy enough to run away from in the event something went wrong.

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