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Not content material to be an automaker and even an vitality firm, Tesla now desires folks to consider it as a robotics firm.

At Tesla’s “AI Day” presentation yesterday, CEO Elon Musk made the shock announcement that the corporate is engaged on a humanoid robotic. The endeavor, he argued, is sensible given the corporate’s expertise working towards self-driving autos.

“Tesla is arguably the world’s greatest robotics firm as a result of our automobiles are semi-sentient robots on wheels,” Musk mentioned. “We expect we’ll most likely have a prototype someday subsequent yr.”