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Tesla will build a humanoid robot called Tesla Bot, CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday.
“We’re also good at sensors and batteries and we’ll probably have a prototype next year that looks like this,” Musk said, shortly after an actor in a body suit designed to look like the Tesla robot gyrated wildly on stage. He remarked that the actor was not a real robot, but “the Tesla Bot will be real.”
The announcement was made as part of AI Day, a series of tech talks hosted by Tesla in California to recruit machine learning talent.
The Tesla Bot is an example of Musk’s showmanship, in which he announces that Tesla is working on exciting products scheduled for years into the future to energize backers…
Source cnbc.com
