Elon Musk says Tesla AI Day pushed to Sept 30

Elon Musk introduced the Tesla Bot at last year's AI Day, saying it could be launched the following year

Elon musk announced on Thursday night that Tesla's AI Day is being pushed to Sept. 30.

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The Tesla CEO tweeted the announcement.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and chief executive officer of Tesla. (Liesa Johannssen-Koppitz/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)

"Tesla AI Day pushed to Sept 30, as we may have an Optimus prototype working by then," said Musk.

 The date was originally set for Aug. 19.

ELON MUSK INTRODUCES HUMANOID ROBOT PROTOTYPE AT TESLA AI DAY

It was at last year's AI Day that Musk introduced the humanoid robot project saying that it could be launched the following year.

Tesla bot

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The robot would carry out the work people don't like to do.

Musk said at the time the robot would "eliminate dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks."

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"Optimus could eventually address global shortages of labor, and in the short term might be able to carry items around a factory," Musk had said in January, according to Reuters.

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Musk has said the purpose of the AI day is to help bring top tech talent to Tesla.

Reuters contributed to this report.