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Tesla is working on a humanoid robot to handle "tasks that are unsafe, repetitive, or boring."
Elon Musk said his company aims to finish building a prototype "sometime next year."
The robots will be designed to handle “tasks that are unsafe, repetitive or boring,” the company’s website reads, but little else, at least at first. (There, the bot is simply called “Tesla Bot.”) “I think essentially in the future, physical work will be a choice, if you want to do it you can,” Musk said.
The robot will be five feet, eight inches tall (172cm), and weigh 125 pounds (57kg).
It will have a walking gait of 5 miles per hour, and its face will feature a screen that will display information.
Musk made the announcement at the end of Tesla's AI Day event, during which the company exhibited its latest AI and supercomputer technologies to power self-driving cars.
Tesla has previously worked on solar-powered Supercharger networks, battery swapping, and robotic snake-style chargers.
Honda, Toyota, and GM have also tried to make human robots.
