Elon Musk

Well, yeah, everything would take a long time.

We've got time.

We're finalizing the design of Optimus version 3.

And that really is going to be a very remarkable robot.

It will have essentially the manual dexterity of a human, so meaning a very complex hand, an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality.

And we made in very high volume.

Those are the three things that are missing.

If you see any other robotics company, they're missing those three things.

Those are the three really hard things.

And I spend actually at this point

It might be more of my mental cycles than anything else, any other single thing on Optimus.

That's solving for real-world AI, all of the electromechanical issues of Optimus, the supply chain and production challenges of it.

Because there is no supply chain that exists for humanoid robots.

So we have to recreate it from scratch, which requires doing a lot of vertical integration.

None of the actuators in Optimus are available from an existing supply chain.

But I think it is accurate to say that if successful, Optimus will be the biggest product ever.

I think that the marginal cost of production, once you hit a million units per year, is probably around the $20,000 range.

It sort of depends on how much you spend on the AI chip in the robot.

And you need to achieve a lot of efficiencies in the actuators.

There are 26 actuators per arm.