On February 1, Tesla CEO ElonMuskRecently, a video was shared on its social media platform, showing the second generation with the shell removed.Humanoid RobotOptimus PrimeOptimus) Walk independently at a steady pace.
Musk has repeatedly emphasized before that Optimus Prime will play an important role in Tesla's future operations, aiming to replace humans in performing dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks.
Since then, Tesla's humanoid robot project has made significant progress. In August 2021, when Tesla first released Optimus Prime, it only showed a static model and a person in a robot costume. At Tesla's AI Day 2.0 in 2022, they launched a prototype of the Optimus Prime robot named "Bumblebee", which was assembled from off-the-shelf parts and was able to walk independently, but its movements were still clumsy.
Also at the 2022 event, Tesla also demonstrated the first generation of the Optimus Prime robot, but it was not able to move autonomously at the time. However, the robot uses Tesla's self-developed actuators and sensors, which is of great significance.
In May 2023, Tesla released a video of the first-generation Optimus Prime walking autonomously, and in December it launched the second-generation Optimus Prime, which had smoother movements and was closer to human pace.
The video shared by Musk recently shows the smooth walking posture of the second-generation Optimus Prime. Earlier, Milan Kovac, the head of the Optimus Prime project, said on social media that 2023 is the year for the project to achieve a breakthrough.