Tesla has begun producing its long-awaited humanoid robot, Optimus, at its Fremont factory, the business stated in its quarterly earnings report.
"The bots coming off this row are the archetypal production-quality bots that we have manufactured," Tesla said.
The business volition continue refining Optimus's hardware and manufacturing process, but added that it has "proven that the current manufacturing procedure for Optimus is suitable for a business product."
Tesla did not say whenever Optimus would rotate into commercially available.
Elon Musk earlier tempered expectations concerning how quickly Tesla can measure up Optimus production, alert it would be "agonizingly slow."
Tesla stopped producing the Model S and Model X at its Fremont, California, factory before this twelvemonth to create area for an Optimus row designed to eventually create a myriad robots a year. A second row under building in Austin is planned to have an annual capability of 10 myriad robots.
Tesla is competing in a crowded humanoid market. Agility Robotics, which plans to go public, has deployed its Digit robot throughout nine client facilities, during Figure AI has announced deployments in logistics and allocation centers this year. Sunday Robotics, 1X, and Weave Robotics are preparing to container robots into homes this fall.
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