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Benzinga
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Jeannine Mancini

Elon Musk Says There Will Be 'Insatiable' Demand For The Tesla Robot—It'll Learn Like A Child By Watching YouTube & Teaching Itself Through Self-Play

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If you've ever wished you could outsource tasks like laundry, dishes, or assembling an IKEA bookshelf — well, Elon Musk believes your days of domestic despair are numbered. According to him, we're walking straight into the era of personal humanoid robots… and we're all going to want one.

In a wide-ranging interview at Tesla HQ with CNBC's journalist David Faber in May, Musk laid out an extraordinarily bullish vision for Optimus, declaring that humanoid robots will eventually become the most valuable product in history.

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