Elon Musk

Tesla will have genuinely useful Optimus humanoid robots in low-volume production, working inside Tesla, during 2025.

“Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year”

Said on

22 July 2024 · Post on X the day before Tesla's Q2 2024 earnings

Source

Elon Musk: Tesla will begin using humanoid robots next year · BreakingNews.ie (PA)

Should come true

2025

Categories

AITechnology

Importance

3 of 5 · Useful humanoid robots in factories would be a milestone for industrial automation.

Outcome

Inaccurate

Tesla built only a few hundred Optimus units in 2025, and on the Q4 2025 call (January 2026) Musk said Optimus is "not in usage in our factories in a material way" and is still in R&D. Some low-volume units were built, but the core claim of genuinely useful robots did not happen, so this is scored inaccurate rather than partial.

Evidence:

• https://electrek.co/2026/01/28/musk-admits-no-optimus-robots-are-doing-useful-work-at-tesla-after-claiming-otherwise/
• https://techcrunch.com/?p=3031231