Tesla earlier used its official "X" account to showcase the recent developments of its humanoid robot Optimus, showing that it can already operate with 22 degrees of freedom in its hands and can even catch a ball in real time.
However, this operation is currently still done manually (Editor’s note:Just like at the launch event in October this year, Optimus was used remotely to pour wine for people), but it shows that Tesla's humanoid robot can already achieve more delicate hand operations.
The new version of the arm installed in Optimus mainly uses three joints from the wrist to the forearm to form a movement pattern with up to 22 degrees of freedom, allowing Optimus's hand to have more flexible operating performance.
Tesla said that it will add more active tactile elements to the Optimus hand and ensure sufficient softness without affecting the sense of touch, and cover the hand with a protective layer. At the same time, it plans to reduce the overall weight of the arm so that the Optimus hand can move more lightly.
At the same time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a related response that he hopes Optimus can become like C-3PO or R2-D2 in the movie "Star Wars", which seems to imply that in the future, humanoid robots will be able to communicate with humans more deeply, perhaps adding more language understanding and interactive functions, and using dexterous hand movements to help users complete various tasks, and even become people's assistants.Friends in daily life.
Optimus currently plans to sell the robot to the public by the end of 2025, and will deploy it in its factories by the end of this year to assist in the production of vehicles and other products.Small-scale mass production, and it is expected to be mass-produced in 2026 and then provided to other companies for use.
Optimus will be like having your own personal C-3PO & RD-D2 https://t.co/0XgItDZE6S
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2024
Our new hand/forearm with double the number of degrees of freedom now in action on the bot! There's 22 DoFs on the hand, and 3 on the wrist/forearm.
This little video was made last night in the lab (teleoperated) and is real-time. Gives us confidence that we'll very soon be… https://t.co/647FWdtkm7
— Milan Kovac (@_milankovac_) November 28, 2024
