Tesla can have humanoid robots in “low manufacturing” for the corporate’s inside use subsequent yr, CEO Elon Musk stated on Monday, months after he introduced a rollout by the top of 2024.
The automaker can have the robots “hopefully” in excessive manufacturing for different corporations in 2026, Musk stated in a put up on social media platform X.
Musk had stated in April that the Tesla robotic, known as Optimus, would be capable of carry out duties in manufacturing unit by the top of this yr and may very well be prepared on the market as quickly as the top of 2025.
Humanoid robots have been in improvement for a number of years by Japan’s Honda and Hyundai Motor’s Boston Dynamics. Firms are betting on them to fulfill potential labor shortages and carry out repetitive duties that may very well be harmful or tedious akin to logistics, warehousing and manufacturing.
Musk has a historical past of failing to meet daring guarantees to Wall Road.
In 2019, he advised traders that Tesla could be working a community of “robotaxi” autonomous vehicles by 2020.
Final week, he signaled that an unveil of the robotaxi would take extra time, saying he requested “an essential design change” to the entrance of the automobile.
Tesla put out the primary technology of its Optimus robotic, dubbed Bumblebee, in September 2022. This yr, the corporate posted a video of a second technology of the bipedal robotic folding a T-shirt on the agency’s facility.
Musk has in latest months pivoted to deal with synthetic intelligence, autonomous driving software program, robotaxis and the Optimus robotic amid tapering demand for EVs, which make up greater than 80 p.c of Tesla’s quarterly income.
Tesla is about to report its second-quarter outcomes on Tuesday, with Wall Road anticipating margins to hit a greater than five-year low, however focus may also be on Musk’s formidable plans for robotaxis and AI merchandise.
Tesla shares had been up about one p.c premarket on Monday.
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