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Tesla Optimus news, milestones, and every word Elon Musk says about the robot.
One feed for Tesla’s humanoid robot: production wins, new demos, Wall Street’s math, plus a dedicated log of Elon’s Optimus activity on X. The feed refreshes automatically, so the site is never behind the story.
“Not just Tesla’s biggest product ever, but probably the biggest product ever.”
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[ 01 / THE WIRE ]
Progress only. Production, demos, capabilities, and what Wall Street thinks it’s worth. If the robot took a step forward, it’s here.
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Goldman Sachs said Tesla’s Optimus and robotaxi updates are likely to matter more to the stock than Q3 earnings per share, with investors focused on the AI and robotics outlook ahead of the Oct. 21 report.
SRC: BENZINGATesla hired specialized data collectors and opened training centers in three states, exceeding 1 million hours of Optimus training data as production ramps to hundreds of units weekly toward a 1,000-per-week year-end target.
SRC: BASENORTesla is exhibiting an Optimus Gen 2 humanoid robot at its Paris Motor Show stand this week, together with a Cybercab drawn from its operational Austin robotaxi fleet.
SRC: AUTOBLOGA newly published Tesla patent describes curved flexible tactile sensors for robotic fingers and palms that let Optimus detect touch, force and pressure like a human hand, along with scalable manufacturing methods.
SRC: NOT A TESLA APPTesla posted a teaser clip for an upcoming Halloween Mode vehicle software update that features a refined Optimus V3 robotic hand clawing out of a digital graveyard scene. The visualization highlights the latest humanoid design in a festive in-car display.
SRC: TESLARATIOctober 1 drone footage shows Tesla's dedicated Optimus factory at Giga Texas with its steel frame nearly complete after just six months of construction, keeping the project on track for high-volume production in 2027.
SRC: BASENORElon Musk said Tesla halved AI5 chip RAM to 72GB and cut AI6 by a third to 144GB as the only way to secure enough volume for Optimus production while greatly reducing cost. He added the change should have a negligible effect on Optimus performance because memory bandwidth, not total capacity, is the limiting factor.
SRC: YAHOO FINANCEVinod Khosla expects robotics to have its ChatGPT moment within two years as Tesla Optimus provides public-market exposure to the humanoid sector. Private startup valuations could decline even as the overall robotics market expands.
SRC: BENZINGATesla entered $30 billion in new credit facilities to accelerate AI investments and scale production of Optimus robots and Cybercab. The company is targeting more than $25 billion in capex this year for its fastest industrial buildout.
SRC: BENZINGAEditorial policy, stated plainly: this feed is curated by optimists. We track wins and skip the doom. For neutral coverage, read a newspaper.
[ 02 / COMM LOG ]
Every public post, reply, quote, and repost from @elonmusk about Optimus, logged as it happens. When the boss talks about the robot, it lands here.
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“We’re making interesting progress here. Digital Optimus can play about halfway through the Diablo campaign so far just by looking at the screen like a human. Skill at Counter-Strike and other fast games is good too. League is also in training. Goal is to generalize across all games.”
Replying to @teslayoda's post about Tesla hiring a Machine Learning Engineer for Digital Optimus / realtime games
VIEW ON X ↗“We cut our RAM in half for the Tesla AI5 chip (now 72GB of LP5) and 1/3 for AI6 (now 144GB of LP6). This was the only way to get enough volume for Optimus production and greatly reduces cost. As it turns out, we think this will have a negligible effect on Optimus performance, as memory bandwidth is a bigger limiting factor than total memory storage (bandwidth was held constant).”
Replying to @DirtyTesLa post estimating 200GB RAM per humanoid robot vs. global DRAM output for 10B robots
VIEW ON X ↗“Optimus is cool”
Replying to @Rothmus quoting an Optimus fan video about everyone loving Optimus and kids growing up with it in kitchens
VIEW ON X ↗“Megatons to orbit & beyond is a critical piece of the K2 puzzle. The other parts are: massive amounts of solar cell production, AI chip production, millions of humanoid (general purpose) robots and a mass driver on the Moon. My guess is that ~1M Optimi plus ~1GW of solar will…”
Replying in the Starbase Louisiana announcement thread; the post continues that ~1M Optimus units plus ~1GW of solar would constitute the first Von Neumann Probe.
VIEW ON X ↗“One day, Optimus + Grok will provide incredible medical care to all the people of Earth”
VIEW ON X ↗“Digital Optimus is different: real-time video human emulation”
replying to @farzyness claiming Grok Bot IS Digital Optimus
VIEW ON X ↗[ 03 / FOOTAGE VAULT ]
The robot on camera: official Tesla drops and the demos that mattered, from the first shaky walk to the production line. Click any frame to play.
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[ 04 / MISSION LOG ]
From a dancer in a spandex suit to a production line in five years. Every milestone on the road to a million robots.
Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Bot concept: a 5 ft 8 in general-purpose humanoid for dangerous, repetitive, and boring work. A prototype is promised within a year — and a dancer in a robot suit steals the show.
Development prototype “Bumble C” walks on stage untethered for the first time and waves to the crowd — built in roughly six months.
10 kg lighter and 30% faster than its predecessor, with Tesla-designed actuators and 11-DOF hands with tactile fingertips delicate enough to handle eggs.
Video shows Optimus autonomously sorting 4680 battery cells into trays at Fremont, running an end-to-end neural network on the robot’s FSD computer using only cameras and touch.
A fleet of robots serves drinks, plays games, dances, and chats with guests in Burbank — walking autonomously, with humans teleoperating conversations.
Tesla demos the upgraded tendon-driven hand and forearm — roughly double the previous degrees of freedom — snatching a tennis ball mid-air.
Fluid dance routines learned entirely in simulation via reinforcement learning transfer zero-shot to the physical robot.
At the Hollywood Diner opening, Optimus hands out popcorn, waves, and poses — the public’s first hands-on encounter.
Untethered robots dance alongside Musk at Giga Texas as he names Optimus one of three major products entering production in 2026, led by the more capable V3.
On the Q1 call, Musk confirms the Model S/X lines will build Optimus V3, targeting production by late July–August and an eventual path toward a million units a year.
First steel goes up on the north campus: over 5 million square feet designed for high-volume output, targeting up to 10 million robots per year.
The S/X lines come down in 46 days and first-generation Optimus lines go in, with early builds earmarked for the internal “Optimus Academy” training program.
Analysts tour Fremont and report the Gen 3 design finalized, supply chain essentially locked in, and external commercial sales possible as early as H2 2027.
Optimus enters production on floor space that built Model S and X. Early output is intentionally slow, with the first robots headed to Optimus Academy.
Alongside the Starbase Louisiana announcement, Musk describes Optimus as the first “Von Neumann machine” — solar-powered, million-unit-scale robots that could one day help build civilization on other planets.
[ 05 / THE MACHINE ]
What Tesla is actually building. Latest-generation figures where public, best-known numbers otherwise.
VISION / AI
An adapted version of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving stack: camera pixels in, joint-level actions out — no lidar, no hand-coded control. A vision-language-action model takes what it sees plus plain-English instructions and outputs motor commands.
HANDS
The V3 hand doubles Gen 2’s degrees of freedom, driven by tendons routed from forearm actuators through the wrist. Tactile fingertips enable precision grips on delicate objects.
LEARNING
No task-specific programming: humans demonstrate on first-person video, the network learns by imitation, refines motor skills in simulation, and every robot inherits the skill fleet-wide.
[ 06 / THE THESIS ]
The boss keeps saying the quiet part out loud. Here’s the math he’s doing in public.
THE CLAIM
From a Tesla shareholder meeting, where he also said the robot could “actually eliminate poverty.”
THE NUMBER
His projection for what Optimus could make Tesla worth. That’s about half the S&P 500, or eight Apples.
THE COMMUNITY
Optimus Watch is community-run and self-funded. We watch the robot because we’re invested — literally. About the community token ↓
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