What can Elon Musk’s robot do for you?
Elon Musk has said he hopes to use Tesla’s Optimus robot to follow people around in order to prevent them from committing crime. Channeling several dystopian visions, the Tesla boss said the humanoid bots could serve as a form of Robocop that blocks what sci-fi author Philip K. Dick referred to as “PreCrime”. A prototype of Tesla’s humanoid robot was first unveiled in 2022. Optimus robots are designed to look and move like humans, standing about 5’8” tall, and are being developed to perform a wide variety of tasks.