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Ammon News - Tesla boss and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has supported the prediction that there will be about one billion humanoid robots on Earth in two decades. He took to X, formerly Twitter, to back the prediction made by David Holz, the founder of Artificial Intelligence (AI) research lab Midjourney. Holz said in a post last week that "we should be expecting a billion humanoid robots on earth in the 2040s and a hundred billion (mostly alien) robots throughout the solar system in the 2060s." Replying to this, Musk wrote in a post, "Probably something like that, provided the foundations of civilization are stable."

Earlier in August 2021, Tesla developed a prototype humanoid robot that the billionaire may view as contributing to humanity reaching that lofty prediction. Musk said at an event in October 2022, that he hoped to eventually make millions of the Optimus robots, which would carry an estimated $20,000 price tag per unit.

However, the robot was limited in its capabilities and Musk said that he wouldn’t ask it to do more complicated tasks because he “didn’t want it to fall on its face.” He said, "There’s still a lot of work to be done to refine Optimus. I think Optimus is going to be incredible in five or 10 years."

The X chief said in 2022 that he hoped to bring the robot to market in three to five years and that once ready it would be "an extremely capable" machine. He told Reuters that while making humanoid robots wasn’t "directly in line with accelerating sustainable energy" as part of Tesla’s overarching goal, “I think the mission does somewhat broaden with the advent of Optimus to – you know, I don’t know- making the future awesome."

Economic Times