Elon Musk to Deploy Humanoid Robots for Internal Use in Tesla Factories by Next Year

Tesla may have humanoid robots in “low manufacturing” for the corporate’s inner use subsequent yr, CEO Elon Musk mentioned on Monday, months after he introduced a rollout by the top of 2024.

The automaker may have the robots “hopefully” in excessive manufacturing for different corporations in 2026, Musk mentioned in a submit on social media platform X.

Musk had mentioned in April that the Tesla robotic, known as Optimus, would find a way to carry out duties in manufacturing facility by the top of this yr and could possibly be prepared for sale as quickly as the top of 2025.

Humanoid robots have been in growth for a number of years by Japan’s Honda and Hyundai Motor’s Boston Dynamics. Firms are betting on them to meet potential labor shortages and carry out repetitive duties that could possibly be harmful or tedious comparable to logistics, warehousing and manufacturing.

Musk has a historical past of failing to fulfill daring guarantees to Wall Avenue.

In 2019, he instructed traders that Tesla can be working a community of “robotaxi” autonomous automobiles 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 car.

Tesla put out the primary era of its Optimus robotic, dubbed Bumblebee, in September 2022. This yr, the corporate posted a video of a second era of the bipedal robotic folding a T-shirt on the agency’s facility.

Musk has in current months pivoted to give attention to synthetic intelligence, autonomous driving software program, robotaxis and the Optimus robotic amid tapering demand for EVs, which make up greater than 80 % of Tesla’s quarterly income.

Tesla is ready to report its second-quarter outcomes on Tuesday, with Wall Avenue anticipating margins to hit a greater than five-year low, however focus may even be on Musk’s formidable plans for robotaxis and AI merchandise.

Tesla shares had been up about one % premarket on Monday.

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