Elon Musk Envisions Tesla’s ‘Optimus’ Robots as the Future Superhuman Surgeons That Could Revolutionise Global Healthcare
Elon Musk has once again pushed the boundaries of technological imagination — this time with a bold claim that Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus, could one day transform global healthcare by giving every individual access to “the best surgeons” powered by AI-driven precision.
In a conversation with Baron Capital founder Ron Baron, the Tesla CEO outlined an ambitious, long-term vision for the company’s robotics program.
Musk stressed that although no medical version of Optimus exists yet, the potential is enormous.
For him, the biggest challenge the world faces in delivering universal, high-quality medical care isn’t financial — it’s a simple shortage of skilled human experts.
“People talk about eliminating poverty and giving everyone great medical care, but they don’t actually have a solution.”
Musk said, arguing that even wealthy countries have a bottleneck: “There are only so many highly skilled surgeons and specialists, and they don’t grow on trees.”
Musk believes Optimus could break this barrier. He imagines a future where millions of identical, highly precise humanoid medical robots are built in factories and deployed across the world — performing procedures with accuracy beyond what human hands can achieve.
According to him, Optimus will eventually deliver “superhuman” levels of precision. He even hinted that the robots might one day perform extremely complex medical procedures, including ones currently impossible due to human limitations.
In Musk’s worldview, the true constraint of modern healthcare is the finite nature of human expertise — long training periods, physical limitations, and cognitive fatigue.
Robots, he argues, could scale healthcare the same way machines once scaled manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution.
Instead of waiting decades for specialists to be trained, hospitals could simply deploy advanced medical robots engineered for consistent, error-free performance.
Though Optimus is still far from performing surgery, Musk maintains that technology is evolving rapidly enough to make his vision plausible in the future.
After all, he points out, there was a time when people could not have imagined smartphones replacing landline dialling, or video calls becoming routine — something so normal today that even children regularly video-call their parents from home.
In that backdrop, Musk’s futuristic idea doesn’t seem entirely impossible. The world has witnessed technological leaps before. This could simply be the next one.
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