Tesla Bot is the company’s troubled Autopilot system in humanoid form

Not content to be an automaker or even an energy company, Tesla now wants people to think of it as a robotics company.

At Tesla’s “AI Day” presentation yesterday, CEO Elon Musk made the surprise announcement that the company is working on a humanoid robot. The endeavor, he argued, makes sense given the company’s experience working toward self-driving vehicles.

“Tesla is arguably the world’s biggest robotics company because our cars are semi-sentient robots on wheels,” Musk said. “We think we’ll probably have a prototype sometime next year.”