before reading the article text i assumed optimus was one of his children

Well at least it's not money going to LLM datacenters-

"There's limit to much how much AI can do in terms of enhancing the productivity of humans, but there is not really a limit to AI that is embodied," Musk said.

Ah. Well, at least it won't be used in the prison-industrial comple-

Musk also said that Optimus would change life for incarcerated people at the meeting. Instead of physically jailing prisoners, Optimus could "follow you around and stop you from doing crime," he said.

Unrelated but this is hilarious

Tesla is currently in the design stage for Optimus, which Musk has said has proven challenging — especially when it comes to the robot's hands. Musk said that he eventually expects to be able to sell Optimus for $20,000 to $30,000 once the robots hit volume production.

Sure, buddy, the cheapest Tesla is ~$43kUSD, and these robots for which there generally aren't off the shelf parts or infrastructure will be half that? You're definitely going to sell a million of these in the next decade.

Musk later doubled down: “Optimus will actually eliminate poverty.”

sorry, typo, he actually said "the impoverished"

"The only way to do healthcare is with robots"

-Guy in the only industrialised country in the world without public healthcare.

I'm assuming he means these things are going to be wandering the streets murdering poor people

Every single one of his ideas are basic ass science fiction tropes. He wants to go to Mars, he wants giant robots, he wants self driving cars. He's literally 12 years old.

Why does anyone still listen to what this worthless piece of shit says

I guess we're gonna have to become Decepticons now

"People often talk about eliminating poverty, giving everyone amazing medical care," Musk said at the Thursday shareholder event. "There's actually only one way to do that, and that's with the Optimus robot."

You have healthcare, it's called a robot designed to do bazinga shit like dance and serve beer.

Hey there buddy, how's that hyperloop going?

the humanoid robots are a production challenge and aren't launching anytime soon, Tesla has demoed them handing out candy on Halloween, performing Kung Fu with Jared Leto, and dancing onstage

It’s like they tried to write a sentence that kills me when I read it

This, but for Unitree robotics.

It's probably going to be used to eliminate poor people.

Truly

It's just this isnt it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYsulVXpgYg