{"id":74680,"date":"2024-07-22T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74680"},"modified":"2024-07-22T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:50:44","slug":"elon-musk-delays-tesla-optimus-humanoid-robot-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=74680","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk delays Tesla Optimus humanoid robot timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1500\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/Tesla-Bot-Optimus-hero.webp?w=1500\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/Tesla-Bot-Optimus-hero.webp?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/Tesla-Bot-Optimus-hero.webp?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/Tesla-Bot-Optimus-hero.webp?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/electrek.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/Tesla-Bot-Optimus-hero.webp?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Elon Musk has delayed the rollout of the Tesla Optimus humanoid robot compared to a timeline shared just a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-372659\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Despite Musk\u2019s threat not to build AI products at Tesla if he doesn\u2019t get 25% control of the company, the CEO has already restructured the company around its AI products, including its humanoid robot: Tesla Optimus.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to leverage Tesla\u2019s existing technologies to develop a humanoid general-purpose robot that can perform dangerous or repetitive tasks in different industrial or commercial purposes. Eventually, Tesla aims for the robot to also be used by consumers in their homes. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2023\/12\/12\/tesla-unveils-optimus-gen-2-next-generation-humanoid-robot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tesla unveiled \u201cOptimus Gen 2\u201d<\/a>, a new generation of its humanoid robot.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to a timeline, Musk said just a few months ago that he believes that Optimus will be used to perform real tasks inside actual Tesla factories by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Musk said that he believes <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/04\/23\/tesla-may-start-selling-optimus-humanoid-robot-next-year-elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tesla could start selling the robot to customers outside of the company by the end of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the CEO has updated the timeline saying that Optimus will go in \u201clow production for Tesla internal use next year,\u201d and the company is aiming for \u201chigh production for other companies in 2026\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year and, hopefully, high production for other companies in 2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s about a year delay compared to the last timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Tesla already claimed last month that <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/06\/12\/tesla-2-optimus-humanoid-robots-working-autonomously-factory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in its factories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-electrek-s-take\">Electrek\u2019s Take<\/h2>\n<p>As I previously stated, I think humanoid robots are going to be a thing and I do believe that Tesla has some valuable tech expertise that applies to this segment.<\/p>\n<p>However, you should never believe Elon\u2019s timelines.<\/p>\n<p>He always announces super optimisitcs timelines that end up being pushed, like it has been the case for almost 6 years with \u201cFull Self-Driving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now it begins for Optimus with the first delay.<\/p>\n<p>At least, with Optimus, Tesla is not using Elon\u2019s promises to sell cars.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\" readability=\"6.3518518518519\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/about\/#affiliate\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- post ad --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has delayed the rollout of the Tesla Optimus humanoid robot compared to a timeline shared just a few months ago. Despite Musk\u2019s threat not to build AI products at Tesla if he doesn\u2019t get 25% control of the company, the CEO has already restructured the company around its AI products, including its humanoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}