ALBAWABA - During Tesla's annual shareholders meeting, American businessman Elon Musk proposed a controversial idea.
Musk suggested using Optimus robots to monitor criminals after they are convicted, instead of sending them to prisons, in a move he described as "a more humane form of containing future crime."
Elon Musk explained that the idea is based on having a humanoid robot accompany the convicted person, acting as a mobile surveillance camera to prevent him from committing new crimes.
Tesla's Optimus robot. (Shutterstock)
He said: "If someone commits a crime, we can give him a robot that follows him wherever he goes and prevents him from committing the crime, without the need to put him in prison. The robot will only prevent the crime, and the rest of his life, he can live normally."
Despite the progress, the commercial version of Optimus has yet to be released, though Tesla expects to begin production next year in California.
Musk described the robot as an "infinite financial boon," asserting its potential to boost the global economy tenfold, and possibly a hundredfold, once widely adopted.
