American billionaire Elon Musk is continuing to expand his technological vision when he announced that Tesla's Optimus-shaped robot could become the biggest breakthrough in the medical field.
According to him, Optimus in the future will help people access the best surgeons through the superior accuracy of AI, opening up a completely new health care model.
Speaking to Ron Baron, founder of Baron Capital, Musk described a world where medical robots can perform complex procedures with greater accuracy than humans.
Although there is no medical version of Optimus yet, the CEO of Tesla still affirms that the technology is getting closer to that possibility.
According to Musk, the global healthcare system is being limited not by finance or facilities, but by a shortage of expertise.
He said that even the richest countries are facing a shortage of highly skilled surgeons.
From there, Musk takes the bold view that mass production of surgical robots with super-precision will help overcome this limitation.
Once Optimus is put into production like other mechanical products, millions of identical robots can be factory-based and deployed simultaneously at hospitals in every country.
Musk described that the future version of Optimus can perform any medical procedures, even operations that humans cannot do because it is too difficult.
With the stability and accuracy of robots, the healthcare industry can be expanded to the same scale as the manufacturing industry in the industrial era, something that humans cannot achieve with traditional human resources.
He believes that this transformation will help access high-quality health care services become popular, no longer a privilege limited by cost or geography.
The hospital does not have to wait many years to train good doctors, but just needs to deploy robots programmed to operate at fault.
Although Optimus is still in the early stages and unable to perform practical medical procedures, Musk emphasized that the pace of AI and robotics development is bringing this vision closer than ever.
If reality comes true, this could be the next revolution in the medical field, completely changing the way people approach specialized surgical and treatment services.
