Elon Musk will launch a humanoid robot next year: people will be able to download their personalities

Artificial Intelligence is already part of the daily lives of millions of people. The fields in which it has been established range from hospitality to medicine. However, science fiction movies will finally become reality: Tesla will manufacture a humanoid robot that can house the personality of its users.

“Humanoid robots are already happening,” he explained in an interview with Insider. “The rate of AI advancement is very fast.” In fact, the British robotics company Engineered Arts presented its Ameca droid last December, with surprisingly realistic facial movements and expressions.

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Musk expressed the great hopes he has in a future powered by Artificial Intelligence and even assured that your own project is already underway.

Tesla intends to start producing, “at least at moderate volume,” its own humanoid robot by the end of 2023, under the name Optimus. “The prototype will already be something really good”.

A deadline that could be met if Musk’s own advances in this matter are taken into account, since during last August it presented its ‘Tesla Bot’, during a company Artificial Intelligence event. “The biggest product development we’re doing this year,” he noted at the time.

Download our own brain power into the robot

The CEO of Tesla began by explaining that the role of this robot should start as a job “boring, repetitive and dangerous”. In other words, this technology must take care of the tasks that the human being does not want to do.

Today, it is already possible to observe this trend. Robots guided by Artificial Intelligence that clean the floor, a technology that iRobot popularized in 2002, with its Roomba, roll through the rooms of millions of homes around the planet.

However, this new era of AI will allow download the user’s own brain power, housing the personality and even the memories of the human being. “We could download the things that we think make us so unique,” Musk prophesied.

Humanoid robots will actually have a human appearance

The doubt of many fans of technology is if these droids could actually be made to look humansince numerous attempts have been made in which this physical condition made its creation impossible.

The fact of moving like a human being is already really difficult for a robot. However, the tech tycoon explained that, indeed, the robot will have a bipedal design and an appearance very close to that of the human race.

“Humanity has designed the world to interact with a bipedal humanoid with two arms and ten fingers“, explicó Elon Musk.

For this reason, the CEO of Tesla pointed out that “if we want the robot to fit and be able to do things that humans can do, it must have approximately the same size, shape and capacity”.