AN EERIE video from Elon Musk paints a future where humanoid robots slot into every corner of life as the billionaire says bots will ultimately make everyone rich.
Musk posted a slick montage on his X profile showing Tesla’s Optimus robot performing an array of human tasks.
The 38-second clip races through scenes of Optimus sparring in a judo gym, working a construction site, and performing emergency aid in a rain-soaked disaster drill.
It then shows the robot on an urban police patrol before cutting to a homely kitchen where it cooks and sets the table.
The montage wraps in a Vegas-style casino with Optimus dealing blackjack and shuffling cards.
Within hours, the post racked up more than 16 million views and 200,000 likes.
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Musk’s montage serves as a teaser not just for Tesla’s robots, but for his sweeping promise of a future where Optimus handles the labour, humans choose work for fun, and wealth becomes universal.
The showcase echoes Tesla’s ongoing push to scale Optimus, which has been demonstrated folding laundry and walking since 2023.
Musk has repeatedly framed humanoids as the fix for global labour shortages tied to falling fertility rates.
Hours after sharing the video, Musk doubled down on that vision at the US-Saudi Investment Forum, predicting a world where work becomes obsolete.
He said: “It’ll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that.
“In the same way you can go to the store and just buy some vegetables, or you can grow vegetables in your backyard.
“It’s much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it because they like growing vegetables.
“That will be what work is like, optional.
“Now, between now and then, there’s actually a lot of work to get to that point.”
The tech tycoon also went further, arguing money itself could fade into irrelevance.
He added: “My guess is, if you go out long enough, assuming there’s a continued improvement in AI and robotics, which seems likely, money will stop being relevant at some point in the future.”
Musk said he sees humanoid robots becoming the “biggest industry or the biggest product ever, bigger than cellphones or anything else, because everyone’s going to want one.”
“There is basically one way to make everyone wealthy, and that is AI and robotics,” he said, adding that “AI and humanoid robots will actually eliminate poverty.”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, sharing the stage, took a more measured line.
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He said: “Everybody’s jobs will be different, I think that’s for sure.”
While he predicted major productivity gains, he quipped to Musk: “When currency doesn’t matter anymore, let me know right before.”
