Meet The Tesla Cybercab, Elon Musk's Autonomous Robo-taxi

Musk travelled to the stage in a Cybercab and said production will start in 2026 with the vehicles being available to buy for less than US30 000.

The autonomous future is here, Musk said. We have 50 fully autonomous cars here tonight. Youll see model Ys and the Cybercab. All driverless.

The Cybercab will cost 0.20/mile to operate over time, use inductive chargers and not require any plugs. They will also rely only on cameras and artificial intelligence, without the need for other hardware that robo-taxi players use.

Musk also showcased a larger, self-driving vehicle called Robovan, capable of carrying up to 20 people, and showed off Teslas Optimus humanoid robot.

Thursdays event at the Warner Bros studio near Los Angeles, California, was titled We, Robot an apparent nod to the I, Robot science-fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, but also echoes Musks insistence that Tesla should be thought of as an AI robotics company rather than a car maker.