Elon Musk says Tesla AI Day pushed to Sept 30
Elon Musk introduced the Tesla Bot at last year's AI Day, saying it could be launched the following year
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Elon musk announced on Thursday night that Tesla's AI Day is being pushed to Sept. 30.
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The Tesla CEO tweeted the announcement.
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla. (Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
"Tesla AI Day pushed to Sept 30, as we may have an Optimus prototype working by then," said Musk.
The date was originally set for Aug. 19.
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It was at last year's AI Day that Musk introduced the humanoid robot project saying that it could be launched the following year.
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The robot would carry out the work people don't like to do.
Musk said at the time the robot would "eliminate dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks."
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"Optimus could eventually address global shortages of labor, and in the short term might be able to carry items around a factory," Musk had said in January, according to Reuters.
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Musk has said the purpose of the AI day is to help bring top tech talent to Tesla.
Reuters contributed to this report.