Elon Musk has been talking a lot lately about his new project, the Tesla Bot, a fully autonomous humanoid robot

Elon Musk has been talking about his new project Optimus , also known as the Tesla Bot, a product concept for a fully autonomous humanoid robot that would integrate seamlessly with the people of the world.

The robot could become the primary source of global labor in a new economy where droids become the working class and humans are elevated.

At 5 foot 8 inches in height and 125 lbs in weight with a top speed of only 5 mph , the average person should be able to overpower or at least outrun a Tesla bot.

We know that rule number one for Tesla Autopilot is don't hit anything or let anything hit you. We have yet to see a case of Tesla 's FSD beta going rogue and killing a bunch of people. So in theory, this should all come together the way that Elon has envisioned it.

Most of the major components in the Optimist design are already being used in Tesla 's mass market vehicles. The Tesla bot would just require a whole lot less of the same stuff that's already going into a 50 or $ 60,000 car, so it wouldn't be very expensive to make.

Elon has expressed several times in recent months that he hopes to have a prototype version of the robot operating this year .

At the recent Cyber Rodeo event, Elon said that he thinks there is a shot at being in production for version 1 of Optimus by next year .

The company itself is hiring new talent to come work on the project with Tesla .