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Tesla
Tesla is developing Optimus, a general-purpose humanoid it says will eventually make up the vast majority of the company's value. Production-quality Optimus robots have started coming off high-volume lines in Fremont, with deliveries to outside customers targeted toward the end of 2027.
What they build
Optimus, Optimus V3
Funding history
No funding rounds covered yet.
Coverage by The Robot Daily (17)
- Oct 30, 2026Musk says no to December Optimus orders — The Robot Daily
- Oct 27, 2026Tesla's Optimus will plug in Robotaxis at Superchargers, executives say — The Robot Daily
- Oct 22, 2026Musk tempers Optimus timeline: outside deliveries 'possible' by end of 2027, 20,000-a-week ramp years away — The Robot Daily
- Oct 22, 2026Tesla is building a second, bigger Optimus factory in Austin, CFO says — The Robot Daily
- Oct 21, 2026Tesla builds its first production-quality Optimus humanoids in Fremont — The Robot Daily
- Oct 21, 2026Musk: Optimus gets AI5 chip in April 2027, and the hand is still the hardest hardware problem — The Robot Daily
- Oct 20, 2026Tesla tells shareholders Optimus V3 is readied for mass production — The Robot Daily
- Oct 19, 2026Tesla shareholders press for Optimus unit cost, first paying customer ahead of Q3 earnings call — The Robot Daily
- Oct 18, 2026Musk: Optimus and Cybercab will be the vast majority of Tesla's value — The Robot Daily
- Oct 15, 2026Tesla's new Roadster steers its rear wing with Optimus robot actuators — The Robot Daily
- Oct 14, 2026Tesla supplier filing: Optimus design nearly final, mass production cycle about to begin — The Robot Daily
- Oct 13, 2026Musk: China's magnet curbs set Optimus back months — ‘we had robots with no arms’ — The Robot Daily
- Oct 11, 2026Musk: Most complex robot demos are just pre-choreographed routines, not real AI — The Robot Daily
- Oct 8, 2026Tesla's Optimus silence is starting to make Wall Street nervous — The Robot Daily
- Sep 30, 2026Tesla locks in $30B in credit to fund Cybercab and Optimus scale-up — The Robot Daily
- Sep 28, 2026Tesla Optimus output up ~10x — but hands and generalization remain the walls — The Robot Daily
- Sep 26, 2026Tesla workers balk at training the Optimus robots meant to replace them — The Robot Daily
Source: The Robot Daily reporting, company announcements and company websites. Funding figures as reported.