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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Tesla Plots Robot Rollout in 2025 and 2026

Tesla is planning to build several thousand of its Optimus humanoid robots to work in its factories this year.  "They will do useful things," Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, told investors. "Those Optimus in use at the Tesla factories for production design 1 will inform how will we change for production design 2, which we expect to launch next year. ..very rough guess that we start delivering Optimus robots to companies that are outside of Tesla in maybe the second half of next year, something like that." 

Musk said that once Tesla is producing one million units a year, the production cost of Optimus will be less than 20,000 US dollars. But the price of Optimus will be set by the market demand, he added.

Tesla also hopes to be piloting its vehicles driving autonomously on the streets of Austin, Texas, by June this year. "We already have Teslas operating autonomously unsupervised full self-driving at our factory in Fremont, and we'll soon be doing that at our factory in Texas," Musk said. "I'm confident that we'll release unsupervised FSD California this year as well. Yes, in fact, I think we will most likely release unsupervised FSD in many regions of the country of the U.S. by the end of this year."  However, in 2025, the focus will be on internal testing - Musk indicated that the general public won't be able to start using self-driving Teslas, which will be offered on an Airbnb-style rental basis, until 2026. Source: Tesla



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