Tesla AI Day

Tesla's 2021 and 2022 technical showcase events, where the Optimus humanoid robot first appeared.

AI Day was a Tesla event aimed at engineers and recruiting, held twice. The first, in August 2021, focused mainly on autonomous driving and the Dojo supercomputer, and ended by unveiling the concept of a humanoid robot called Tesla Bot — at the time, just a person in a costume walking on stage. The second, in September 2022, showed an actual Optimus prototype walking on stage, with Elon Musk saying the target price would be under $20,000. These two events are widely credited with fueling a wave of humanoid-robot startups and investment both in China and abroad.

ExampleAt AI Day 2022, an early Optimus prototype walked onto the stage without its outer shell and waved to the audience.

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Sources

Optimus (robot) - Wikipedia

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2022-09