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Elon Musk: “Hypothetically, if Tesla was making a billion of these…”

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So that's why I think there's probably, it's probably world's biggest product because there's at least a market for probably 20 billion. Could be 50 billion. I don't know a lot. So, you know, Hypothetically, if Tesla was making a billion of these [Optimus robots] a year at scale, and at scale the cost gets lower and lower. So maybe like on the order of $3,000. I'm just guessing there, and you know, that's 30 trillion in revenue. Insane. You know, there's a long way to go between here and making a billion Robots a year. (20:40–20:54)

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