Tesla Inc TSL Managing Director Elon Musk on Friday imagined people uploading their memories to the cloud and downloading them into a humanoid robot, adding to a long list of benefits the billionaire entrepreneur sees for his company’s humanoid bots, called Optimus.

What happened: “At some point, you’ll probably be able to upload a good approximation of your memories and mental state to the cloud and then download it to a humanoid robot,” Musk wrote on X.

“You will obviously not be quite the same as you are today.”

The CEO was responding to a Tesla enthusiast who wondered if his brain could be copied into Tesla’s humanoid Optimus to live longer after the death of the physical body.

Tesla unveiled its humanoid bot in 2021, initially with the goal of completing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks, but Musk said in June that the Optimus could also act as a companion, babysit children or do household chores in factories.

Earlier this month, Musk even announced that robots would hit the bullseye every time in a shooting competition at the Olympic Games.

Why it is important: During Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting in June, Musk said that in the future there will be at least one humanoid robot for every person in the world. That means a total humanoid robot population of at least 10 billion or more, of which the electric car company will have a significant share.

“While autonomous vehicles have a market cap of $5 trillion to $7 trillion, Optimus’ market cap is $25 trillion,” Musk said at the time.

Musk said last month that the electric car company would begin producing “really useful” humanoid robots in small batches for use in its factories next year. The company would “hopefully” ramp up production for other customers in 2026, he added.

Two Optimus bots are already in use at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, taking cells from the end of the production line and placing them in containers, the CEO confirmed in early June.

Musk expects to be able to sell the Optimus for $10,000 or $20,000, making it cheaper than Tesla’s cheapest sedan, the Model 3, once mass production is achieved.

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