TL;DR: Tesla is scaling up its ambitions with plans to manufacture 10 million Optimus humanoid robots at a new facility in Texas.
Elon Musk loves a massive production target. We just got word that Tesla is planning to churn out 10 million Optimus units from a brand new facility in Texas. That’s a staggering number. For context, there are only about three million industrial robots operating in the entire world right now.
Tesla clearly sees a future where humanoid robots are as common as cars. They want Optimus on factory floors first. Then they want it in your house doing laundry. Scaling up to millions of units is the only way to drive the price down to something a normal person might actually buy.
Skeptics will point out that Tesla routinely misses its aggressive timelines. They’re not wrong. But betting against their manufacturing capabilities is usually a bad idea. If they can figure out the brain of this robot, the Texas plant proves they’re ready to stamp out the bodies.
Source: The Robot Report