Trump Promises Tax Cuts At Business Roundtable With CEOs, Including Apple’s Tim Cook And JP Morgan’s Jamie DimonTesla could start selling its humanoid Optimus robot by the end of next year and predicted it could drive the carmaker to a $25 trillion valuation, another ambitious claim from the billionaire that experts said might just be within the realm of possibility—though is highly unlikely to make the company any money in the near future.
Animesh Garg, assistant professor of AI robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, told Forbes Musk’s timeline is “aggressive” but “realistic from a pure release perspective,” but said the question will be “how useful are the skills that ship out of the box,” particularly when it comes to breadth, generalizability and robustness.
Jonathan Aitken, a roboticist at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., agreed Musk’s “timeline would be very challenging” and described 2025 as “ambitious but not out of the question,” saying that a lot depends on “the details of exactly what” Musk is suggesting for its applications.