What to Expect at Tesla AI Day 2022
Tesla's AI Day, a yearly event for the tech-obsessed eager to see new ways the company is pushing the envelope, is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 30 in Palo Alto. It's expected to be live-streamed on the Tesla website and YouTube channel around 5 p.m. PT and promises lots of Big Musk Energy.
AI Day is basically Tesla's version of an Apple event, but rather than product launches, the event will have a forward-looking focus. It's less about new Teslas, and more about emerging technologies the company is exploring. As Musk noted on Twitter, "this event is meant for recruiting AI & robotics engineers, so will be highly technical." Musk might even have us on Mars before some of the innovations discussed come to fruition.
To get a feel for what to expect, here's a replay of last year's two-hour livestream, in which Musk argues that Tesla is "much more than an electric car company."
The program features experts from various Tesla teams, who deep dive into the tech behind some of the company's most ambitious projects. Graphs and charts abound.
The most anticipated potential reveal is a working Optimus humanoid robot prototype. On Twitter, Musk said he pushed this year's event from August to Sept. 30 because "we may have an Optimus prototype working by then."
Musk "introduced" the Optimus robot at last year's AI Day, though the android in question was actually a dancer wearing a spandex bodysuit. Viewers will be eager to see what progress the company has made since then. Eventually, Musk wants to deploy “thousands of Humanoid Robots" in Tesla factories, according to a new job listing(Opens in a new window) for the Tesla Bot program.
Last week, Musk tweeted(Opens in a new window) that Tesla's "Autopilot/AI team is also working on
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