{"id":121636,"date":"2025-09-05T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121636\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:38:09","slug":"teslas-next-gen-optimus-with-grok-shown-on-video-were-not-impressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/121636\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla’s next-gen Optimus with Grok shown on video. We’re not impressed."},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla’s<\/a> Optimus robot<\/a> now comes with xAI’s AI assistant Grok<\/a>, but judging from a recent video shared on X, it’s not very close to fulfilling CEO Elon Musk’s dream<\/a> and becoming Tesla’s biggest product ever. <\/p>\n

The video<\/a>, shared by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, shows the next-gen Optimus in new, gold attire, with several new visual details including more human-like hands. More importantly, Optimus now features Grok’s voice mode, meaning it can understand user queries and answer them with spoken replies.<\/p>\n


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The video, however, will hardly impress anyone, as Optimus appears slow to respond, requiring several vocal nudges to start performing a fairly simple task \u2014 going to the kitchen and fetching a Coke. The robot takes a few sluggish steps, presumably towards said kitchen, but the video ends before we can see if Optimus can actually fetch the beverage. <\/p>\n

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The video shows some progress from earlier instances of Optimus we’ve seen, such as the human-assisted versions shown during Tesla’s “We, Robot” event<\/a> last year or the popcorn-serving robots at LA’s Tesla Diner<\/a>. But it’s not the kind of demonstration that will make you think Tesla will be selling millions of these anytime soon. <\/p>\n

Benioff, for one, seems to be impressed, calling it a “productivity game-changer” that will be “tackling human work for $200K\u2013$500K.” Coincidentally (or perhaps not), Benioff recently cut 4,000 customer service jobs at Salesforce<\/a>, with AI agents stepping in instead.<\/p>\n

Optimus is still in prototype stage, and we might see more iterations as it nears production, which is scheduled to start in 2026. <\/p>\n

The demonstration comes shortly after Tesla shared the fourth instance of its Master Plan<\/a>, a fairly vague document that seems to put a lot of weight on Optimus as Tesla’s most important product going forward. Musk previously said that Tesla plans to sell millions of units per year<\/a> within four to five years.<\/p>\n