Elon Musk wants to create a cyborg body

Elon Musk thought about creating robotic limbs that could be controlled using a chip in the brain. About this idea, he told to investors during a discussion of Tesla's results for the second quarter of 2023,

But let's go in order. Mid 2021 billionaire informedthat the automaker is developing a humanoid Tesla Bot equipped with artificial intelligence. And he explained the concept of the project: in the future, they will be able to save people from hard factory work and other manual labor.

Then, at the end of 2022, the company demonstrated a real prototype. Musk announced that the robot program, dubbed Optimus, is the most important project Tesla is working on, and that it could end up making more money than its core automotive business.

And now the businessman has begun to promote a potential, as he believes, offshoot of Optimus - high-tech prosthetics. Combining advanced robotics from Tesla with technology Neuralink

could give amputees "robotic arms or legs that are just as good, if not better in the long run, than biological ones," the businessman said.

Recall that Neuralink is implanting chips in the brain, which in the future should allow people to control a computer or mobile device using the power of thought, as well as to deal with a number of complex diseases and abnormalities.

But this is still just an idea, so there are no details about the project. As for Optimus, the entrepreneur is confident that as early as next year, robots will be doing “something useful” at Tesla factories.