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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrCat" data-source="post: 30463337" data-attributes="member: 38575">Elon said that Tesla`s Optimus would be around 20k - 30k (USD) when mass produced.  Even if the price is doubled, at 40k USD, its still nothing compared to the salary paid to a person.  Take a basic medium sized restaurant operaring in the US. The average salary for a waiter is around 32k per year (this is for a waiter only, NOT kitchen staff). A Robot on the other hand, could do all the waitering, then do all the cleaning once the restaurant is closed.  Charge at night for like 4 hours (obvioulsy wont take this long with supercharging, but just an assumption), then be ready next morning to do perperation work at the kitchen. Repeat this cycle endlessly (with some downtime for maintenance of course). You know that the Voyager 1 spacecraft had a basic nuclear power source in 1977 right (radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs))? Technilcally, it`s nothing to build a safe, efficient mini reactor in 2025.  Dont really need these in robot`s though, batterry tech is getting better by the day and electricity is also really really cheap  when compared to paying wages for a person.</blockquote>

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