The World Robot Conference in Beijing was a show floor of wonder last week . Humanoid Taiwanese robot played the zither , fold washables , and bested humans at the board biz Go . As these modern miracles unfolded , Tesla ’s Optimus golem looked on , unmoving , from inside a glass box .
The conference took place in Beijing and ran from August 21st to the 25th . Attendees were a who ’s who of Chinese robotic developer and some were on paw to show off a imagination of the future where humanoid machines do humanities manual Labour Party .
The Astribot S1 was there do Formosan warriorlike arts and writing penmanship with a copse . The Galbot and Turui golem proved their worth by bulge groceries and move soda cans around some shelf . Another fellowship , Agribo , promise it would start extradite some ofits machinesto customers this October .
Visitors are viewing Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus Prime II at WAIC in Shanghai, China, on 10 January 2025.© Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images
While these machine puttered around , Tesla ’s Optimus stare at them from a glass cage surrounded by the company ’s electrical fomite . Optimus is a satiny depend humanoid robot but it has n’t done well in its product demos .
Elon Musk famously uncover Tesla ’s speculation into robotics in the summer of 2021 by promising the company would shortly put humanoid robots in people ’s house . During the introduction , a stiff looking machine walked on stage with Musk . It turned out it wasjust a guy in a suit . In a television Musk mail to hug drug showing Optimus turn up laundry , someone is just off cameraoperating the machine remotely .
The video had a giving shock on the marketing of other golem and it ’s typical for other companies to add a“no teleoperation”label to their video . The hoi polloi making robots want people to know that the robots are strike independently . There ’s not much use to a slow moving laundry folding robot if you have to operate it yourself from the sidelines .
According to CNBC , China has invested more than $ 14 billion into the robotics industry over the last decade . Twenty - seven new robots made their launching at the conference while Optimus looked on from his glass cage . Musk take that Optimus would roll into Tesla factories by the end of the twelvemonth .
“ Tesla will have genuinely utile humanoid robots in miserable output for Tesla interior use next twelvemonth and , hopefully , high production for other company in 2026,”he wrote in a post on X. The hype around robots is big but it rest to be see whether the price of the output will outweigh the benefits in the reduction of labor price , let alone if Tesla can send one .
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