Elon Musk has claimed that he’ll have a humanoid robot complete by 2022, but should we believe him? Musk has a reputation for making promises and not fulfilling them. Recently at Tesla’s AI day event, Musk announced that his company will have a prototype ready by next year.
Should we be excited about Tesla Bot?
The Tesla Bot will be built to help humans with tasks that are repetitive or dangerous. Musk also shared a PowerPoint to confirm the bot’s existence. The promise of a domestic robot could be blown out of proportion, similar to how the company touts its “full self-driving” option that is not as good as it sounds. Even Musk has admitted that the current beta can be improved.
So it makes perfect sense if people are skeptical about Musk’s plan of developing a humanoid robot. He has disappointed so many enthusiasts in the past. But Musk has also done things that weren’t done by anyone else before. It remains to be seen if Elon Musk stays true to the promise and makes the Tesla Bot a reality.
Elon Musk achieving new heights in space exploration
Besides, Musk might develop spacesuits for NASA. The space agency’s lunar-grade spacesuits might not be ready for the first landing on the lunar surface in 2024, as per a new audit. SpaceX already has spacesuits that were used during several missions to space; however, they aren’t designed for extra-vehicular spacewalks, let alone the moving around on surfaces of other worlds.
The space agency is already looking for private firms that can design a suit that could be ready by 2024. In July, the company published a draft request for proposal (RFP), asking firms to make “commercially built spacesuits and support services for spacewalks on the International Space Station,” NASA said in a statement.
SpaceX is already working closely with NASA for the Artemis Moon mission. The company was also won a huge $2.9 billion contract to develop a lunar lander version of its Starship spacecraft that will ferry NASA astronauts to the Moon.
