{"id":325373,"date":"2025-10-23T02:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325373\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:34:19","slug":"elon-musk-wants-strong-influence-over-the-robot-army-hes-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/325373\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Wants \u2018Strong Influence\u2019 Over the \u2018Robot Army\u2019 He\u2019s Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla might be an electric auto maker, but CEO Elon Musk<\/a> has made clear that he thinks of it as much more: an innovator in artificial intelligence and software, a builder of world-shaking robots. He\u2019s also argued that Tesla<\/a> should be worth a lot more than it is today: up to $20 trillion, he posted in July<\/a>, more than five times the current worth of Nvidia.<\/p>\n

Musk has also made it clear that he wants to get paid, a lot. In November, Tesla shareholders will vote on the board\u2019s proposal to pay the CEO a remarkable $1 trillion over the next decade<\/a>. The deal would also increase Musk\u2019s stake in Tesla from 13 percent to a quarter. But Musk would only get that big figure\u2014and the extra control\u2014if he hits a series of ambitious metrics, including 20 million vehicles delivered, 1 million robotaxis<\/a> in commercial operation, and an $8.5 trillion valuation. And also, 1 million Optimus humanoid robots delivered.<\/p>\n

On a call with investors on Wednesday, Musk locked on to that last point to make his most threatening argument for a gigantic payday yet. \u201cMy fundamental concern with regard to how much voting control I have at Tesla is, if I go ahead and build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted at some point in the future?\u201d he said. \u201cIf we build this robot army, do I have at least a strong influence over this robot army? Not control, but a strong influence \u2026 I don’t feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Generally, Musk talks about Tesla\u2019s Optimus project as more of a force for peace than war. He\u2019s said that Optimus will upend the job market and free humanity from the drudgery of work. (\u201cWorking will be optional, like growing your own vegetables, instead of buying them from the store,\u201d he posted<\/a> this week.) Elsewhere on the investor call Wednesday, he said that Tesla\u2019s robots would \u201cactually create a world where there is no poverty, where everyone has access to the finest medical care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Optimus, he added, \u201cwill be an incredible surgeon, and imagine if everyone had access to an incredible surgeon.\u201d For Tesla, Optimus will be \u201can infinite money glitch,\u201d Musk said, arguing that everyone will want a humanoid robot who can do their work for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesla might be an electric auto maker, but CEO Elon Musk has made clear that he thinks of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":325374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,13656,66,753,7829,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-325373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-earnings","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-robots","12":"tag-tesla","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115421148908212832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}