Elon Musk showcases dystopian $30,000 robots designed to ‘babysit children’

Elon Musk showcases dystopian $30,000 robots designed to 'babysit children'Tesla

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00:00a robot with arms and legs instead of a robot with with wheels and we've made a lot of progress

00:09with the optimist and as you can see we started with someone in a robot suit

00:17sort of that and then we've progressed from dramatically year after year

00:24so if you extrapolate this you're really going to have something spectacular

00:29something that anyone could own so you could have your own personal r2d2 c3po

00:40and i think at scale the you know this would cost something like i don't know twenty thirty

00:47thousand dollars probably less less than a car is my prediction long term you know take us a minute

00:53to get to the long term but um but fundamentally at scale the optimist robot you should be able to

01:02buy an optimist robot for i think probably twenty to thirty thousand dollars long term

01:07so and and what can it do it can it'll be able to do anything you want so it can

01:13be a teacher babysit your kids it can walk your dog mow your lawn get the groceries