Elon Musk is preparing to send the robot to Mars to prepare for humanity. This is when and when
SpaceX CEO said in a post on X that the company’s next-generation rocket ship will “hope” to start its first Mars mission by the end of next year. He also revealed that the humanoid robot developed by Tesla may be part of the mission.
This marks Musk’s first public reference to Tesla’s Optimus Prime’s potential use in a mission to Mars. Although he has previously talked about unmanned missions to 2026, his latest update shows that progress towards that goal is accelerating.
Regarding the necessity of a mission to Mars, Musk said earlier: “Being multiple elements will greatly increase the lifespan of consciousness because we will no longer have all eggs on a planet and metabolically.”
Although Musk is optimistic, experts are still skeptical of the timeline.
“If you start looking at what’s actually going on, it will take a lot of time to really achieve it. Is this what happened in this decade? It can have a lot of risks, but if you have a lot of risks. But if you give me thirty years, I can see that the risk may drop to an acceptable level.”
As of now, no unmanned Mars mission is planned to be officially arranged in 2026. NASA and SpaceX usually announce missions one year in advance, meaning that formal updates are not possible until the second half of 2025.
Meanwhile, President Trump’s nominee as NASA’s nominee Jared Isaacman stressed that Mars will remain the top priority.
“We will prioritize sending American astronauts to Mars,” said billionaire entrepreneur Isaacman, who flew into space twice with SpaceX.
Speaking on the Senate Committee, Isaacman suggested that efforts to return to the moon and reach Mars can be improved simultaneously: “I don’t think we need to make a binary decision about the moon and Mars. We should do it at the same time. That’s why American taxpayers funded NASA in the first place.”
What can Optimus Prime do?
Elon Musk earlier showed Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus (formerly Twitter) on X. The shared video shows the robot’s enhanced walking ability and proposes its evolution in side-by-side comparisons.
Dogedesigner on X posted on X: “How it started and how it evolved.
Musk also announced plans to deploy “Optimus Prime’s Legion” this year. Tesla’s Fremont facility has begun production, with a target of 10,000 to 12,000 units by 2025.
Optimus was first introduced in 2021 and appeared as a prototype in Tesla’s 2022 AI Day.
“Tesla achieved this in just 43 months,” Dogedesigner noted that while sharing the video compilation, which features clips from projected in 2021, 2022 and 2025. Musk added humorously: “We may reach its peak in 2021.”
As for its functionality, Optimus is designed to use a two-legged motion system and articulated arms and hands to navigate and interact with the physical world. Tesla Humanoid robot.
The robot can walk, self-calibrate its limbs, and even maintain balance on one leg. It is able to master, classify and manipulate precise tasks such as objects. Equipped with multiple sensors, Optimus can independently sense its environment and monitor its limb positioning in real time.
Tesla plans to commercialize Optimus by 2026, with an estimated price range of $20,000 to $30,000.
