{"id":147348,"date":"2022-10-01T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/teslas-robot-strategy-is-inextricably-tied-to-its-autopilot-strategy-for-better-or-for-worse"},"modified":"2022-10-01T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:23:58","slug":"teslas-robot-strategy-is-inextricably-tied-to-its-autopilot-strategy-for-better-or-for-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/teslas-robot-strategy-is-inextricably-tied-to-its-autopilot-strategy-for-better-or-for-worse","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s robot strategy is inextricably tied to its Autopilot strategy, for better or for worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teslas-robot-strategy-is-inextricably-tied-to-its-autopilot-strategy-for-better-or-for-worse3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tesla unveiled its first<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/09\/30\/teslas-robot-is-a-real-robot-now-not-just-a-guy-in-a-suit\/\"> prototype of its Optimus humanoid robot on Friday<\/a> \u2014 an actual robot this time, by the strictest definition, instead of a<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/08\/19\/musk-the-tesla-bot-is-coming\/\"> flesh and blood human clad in a weird suit<\/a>. The robot performed some basic functions, including walking a little bit and then raising its hands \u2014 all for the first time without supports or a crane, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The company may be taking its first early steps into humanoid robotics, but it has a lot riding on the business. Musk has said that the Optimus bot will eventually be more valuable \u201cthan the car business, worth more than FSD (Tesla\u2019s add-on \u2018Full Self-Driving\u201d feature, which is not self driving.) <\/p>\n<p>What was apparent at the event Friday night is that Tesla is making the economically wise, but strategically questionable decision to yoke together the destinies of both Optimus and its Autopilot (and by extension, FSD) ambitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla unveiled its first prototype of its Optimus humanoid robot on Friday \u2014 an actual robot this time, by the strictest definition, instead of a flesh and blood human clad in a weird suit. The robot performed some basic functions, including walking a little bit and then raising its hands \u2014 all for the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,2019,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}