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Elon Musk Envisions Optimus Robots Delivering Superhuman Precision in Global Healthcare

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Optimus Robots Revolutionize Global Healthcare Precision

Business Honor
19 November, 2025

Tesla’s humanoid robots could one day perform advanced surgeries and expand global access to care.

Elon Musk has outlined yet another ambitious vision for the future of healthcare, this time powered by Tesla's humanoid robot Optimus. In an interview with Baron Capital founder Ron Baron, Musk said future versions of Optimus would be capable of performing advanced medical procedures with "superhuman precision," potentially transforming global access to high-quality healthcare. According to Musk, the world's healthcare challenge has never been solely about funding but about scarcity: highly skilled surgeons and specialists take years to train, and even then, their availability is limited. "People talk about eliminating poverty and providing great medical care, but they never actually have a solution," he said. Musk thinks Optimus could be that solution.

He envisions a future where millions of identical, factory-built medical robots are deployed worldwide. These robots, he said, could provide consistent, error-free performances and perform surgical procedures that are too difficult or fine for a human hand. “Optimus will have the level of precision that is frankly superhuman,” Musk said, adding that these robots could handle “any medical procedure, perhaps things humans can’t do because they’re too difficult.” While there is no current medical version of Optimus, Musk makes the case that today's health care has constraints because human expertise is finite; even the best professionals have limited physical and cognitive abilities. Robots can scale without limit, much like manufacturing technology did during the Industrial Era.

Musk's ultimate vision, however, is unambiguous: to democratize elite medical care-to make world-class precision surgery available to all, irrespective of geography or economic circumstance. The Optimus robot is still in early development and has not yet carried out actual surgeries, but Musk maintains that the technology is rapidly improving toward that future. If realized, Tesla's medical robotics vision could mark one of the most significant shifts in healthcare history: bringing automated, ultra-precise medical care to millions.