On Monday, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's humanoid robot named "Optimus," which greeted followers with "Namastella" while comfortably striking some yoga poses.
First introduced at the Tesla AI Day 2022 event in October, Optimus was this time seen performing simple tasks in a video posted by an X owner.
Optimus can now calibrate his own hands and feet.
Using only visual and joint position sensors, the robot can precisely locate its limbs in space.
It fluently learns tasks like sorting and unsporting colored blocks, and its neural network is fully engaged using only vision. After a long day of work on the humanoid robot, the video showed "it's time to stretch" ending with Namaste.
The robot has the same artificial intelligence (AI) software and sensors in Tesla's advanced driver assistance system called "Autopilot" and could cost around $20,000.
The humanoid robot is mass-produced in "millions" of units.
The robot includes a 2.3-kilowatt-hour battery that is "ideal for about a full day of operation," runs on a Tesla chip, and has Wi-Fi and LTE connectivity, The Verge reports.
The human-like hands are a "biologically inspired design" that makes the robot suitable for picking up objects of various shapes and sizes in factories and other facilities. "This is a fundamental change in civilization as we know it," Musk said on AI Day.
He said the cost of the robot could be "probably less than $20,000" as his team moved the non-marginal prototype off the stage behind them.
It can carry a 20kg bag, handle tools, and has a precision grip for small robots.

It also comes with wireless connectivity, audio support, and hardware-level security features.