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Tesla Optimus news, milestones, and every word Elon Musk says about the robot.
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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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A new 'Optimus chargers' reference spotted in Tesla app code on September 18 indicates the company is building software to manage robot charging, pairing with a patented autonomous standing charging station for fleet and future consumer use.
SRC: BASENORNew drone footage from September 17 shows Tesla’s dedicated Optimus factory at Giga Texas closing in on a finished steel frame, with assembly just five column grids from the north perimeter beam and concrete already pouring on three upper floors.
SRC: TESLARATIShares of Chinese robotics-component suppliers climbed after a report that Tesla teams arrived in Ningbo to audit suppliers and place additional orders boosting Optimus production toward a 50,000-unit 2026 target.
SRC: BLOOMBERGSamsung has begun trial production of Tesla's next-generation AI5 chip at its Taylor, Texas foundry two months ahead of schedule. The processor is expected to debut first in Optimus robots and Tesla data centers before reaching vehicles.
SRC: NOT A TESLA APPLatest drone footage from September 9 shows Tesla's Giga Texas Optimus factory accelerating steel assembly just six months after groundbreaking, with mid and south bays filling in over the foundation.
SRC: BASENORSupply-chain vendors and a Jiemian News report say Tesla has cut its first production order in the thousands - roughly 5,000 Optimus units - setting a baseline of about 15,000 deliveries this year. Supplier audits are scheduled for September, with procurement guidance calling for 1,000 units per week ramping to 2,000-2,500 by year-end.
SRC: JIEMIAN NEWS VIA @TSLAMINGTesla's Optimus humanoid robot appeared at the company's exclusive Cybercab launch event in Austin on September 3, underscoring how central the robot has become to Tesla's public identity and its unified physical AI strategy.
SRC: BASENORNew TDLR filings confirm Tesla is adding a dedicated Optimus factory alongside a 490,000-square-foot chip fabrication facility at Giga Texas, advancing vertical integration for robot production.
SRC: BASENORTesla has begun producing Optimus humanoid robots at Fremont on lines converted from Model S/X vehicle production. The milestone marks the start of an entirely new product category that could transform Tesla's business.
SRC: THE MOTLEY FOOLEditorial policy, stated plainly: this feed is curated by optimists. We track wins and skip the doom. For neutral coverage, read a newspaper.
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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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“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 ↗“My very approximate guess is that Terafab AI compute output would be ~25% for Tesla Optimus and ~75% for AI spacecraft”
Replying to a Tesla Owners Silicon Valley post about the Terafab chip fab's compute allocation.
VIEW ON X ↗“Terafab Texas will be the largest and most valuable building on Earth by far. And it will be stunningly beautiful.”
Shared a Terafab concept render video showing Optimus robots working the grounds of the planned Texas facility.
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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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
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