SAN FRANCISCO: Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday said the electric automaker will probably launch a 'Tesla Bot' humanoid robot prototype next year, designed for dangerous, repetitive, or boring work that people don't like to do.

Speaking at Tesla's AI Day event, the billionaire entrepreneur said the robot, which stands around five foot eight inches tall, would be able to handle jobs from attaching bolts to cars with a wrench, or picking up groceries at stores.

The robot would have "profound implications for the economy," Musk said, addressing a labour shortage. He said it was important to make the machine not "super-expensive."

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First of all, if you believe there will be a robot next year that can both screw on bolts and pick up your groceries, then I have a bridge you might like to buy. Second of all, to say that such a robot would have "profound implications for the economy" is a profound understatement. Third of all, such a robot would go much further than reliving a "labour shortage." It would cause unemployment to burgeon. And fourth of all, I want one.

It's scary with how well this news jives with my last post in this thread.