Tesla's Optimus robots will be used to explore the surface of Mars, Elon Musk confirmed today. The humanoid robots, which were initially pitched as household assistants in October last year, will "hopefully" be sent to Mars on a SpaceX flight by the end of 2026.

SpaceX owner Elon Musk detailed his push to make the human race mutli-planetary is to provide it insurance, specifically to save it from being “incinerated” by the sun. The world’s richest man explained that his ambitions to travel to Mars are meant to “better understand the nature of the universe,

In a conversation with "Fox News," Elon Musk revealed that his goal is to protect humanity from annihilation by enabling its expansion to Mars. The advisor to Donald Trump and the richest person in the world believes that the key to civilization's survival is the colonisation of the Red Planet.