Tesla’s optimus hits snags in hands, suppliers as scale-up begins

qlte

This is also a far cry from what Musk was saying last year. In January 2025, he said Tesla would build about 10,000 Optimus robots in 2025 and that “several thousand” would be doing useful work by year-end. A year later, he admitted that zero Optimus robots were doing useful work at Tesla. He also promised a V3 reveal by mid-2026. It’s late September, and that demo still hasn’t happened.

margalabargala

Other issues aside, "several hundred a week" is pretty impressive. They are either going to start finding jobs for the robots to do, or else have a glut of robots on their hands.

IshKebab

Wait they actually stopped producing cars for this? I guess nobody was buying them, otherwise that's insane.

ben_w

Given their history with cars, this is shockingly poor performance. I can only assume that behind the scenes this is a repeat of all that went wrong with the cybertruck.