Elon Musk says that Optimus, Tesla’s general-purpose humanoid robot, should cost “less than half the price of a car”. A few months ago, Tesla unveiled “Optimus Gen 2”, a new generation of its humanoid robot that should be able to take over repetitive tasks from humans. Tesla believed it to be possible by leveraging its AI work on its self-driving vehicle program and expertise in batteries and electric motors. It argued that its vehicles are already robots on wheels. Now, it just needs to be made in humanoid forms to be able to replace humans in some tasks – primarily repetitive and dangerous tasks. The CEO sees everyone having a Tesla Optimus robot at home on top of them taking over a lot of manufacturing and service jobs. Now, Musk says that he believes Tesla can bring the price of its Optimus humanoid robot between $20,000 and $25,000.