Elon Musk unveils life-like humanoid robot to take over 'boring' work

Musk has a long history of unveiling products that are merely prototypes, essentially selling a vision before it exists in reality

As Elon Musk stood in the wings at Tesla’s AI day, a person dressed in a skintight white suit and black helmet did a jerky robot dance across the stage.

And with that, Musk flagged a move into a new realm of science fiction: life-like humanoid robots designed to take the drudgery out of everyday life.

The Tesla Bot, a prototype of which should be available next year, is designed to eliminate “dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks”, like bending over to pick something up, or go to the store for groceries, Musk said. “Essentially, in the future, physical work will be a