TL;DR: Elon Musk just confirmed that Optimus 3 is entering production this summer. The initial rollout will be slow, but high-volume manufacturing is slated for 2027.
Elon Musk dropped a massive update on the Optimus program during the Abundance Summit. He claims Optimus 3 is in the final stages of completion. And he didn’t mince words about the competition. He stated flat out that nothing else comes close to what Tesla has built.
We’re looking at a summer 2026 production start. The ramp up will follow a classic S curve. Expect very low numbers initially out of the Fremont factory. Things will truly heat up next year when high volume production kicks in. Tesla isn’t stopping there either. They plan to iterate constantly with a goal of releasing a new robot design every single year.
The long game is even wilder. Tesla wants to hit a million units per year at Fremont before eventually scaling to ten million units annually at Gigafactory Texas. That kind of volume completely changes the economics of humanoid robots.
Source: Teslarati