You Will Not Believe This, but Tesla’s Nearly Fictional Optimus Robot Is Not Ready Yet ⇥ gizmodo.com

Matt Novak, Gizmodo:

“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,” Musk tweeted on Monday morning.

As Electrek points out, that’s a delay from what was previously promised by Musk. The Tesla CEO had said back in April that he’d have Optimus robots working in Tesla factories by the end of 2024 with deliveries to other companies by 2025. That’s clearly not happening anymore, based on more recent comments.

I am sure there are people somewhere who still believe this is a good-faith “serious endeavour” which is just facing a few hurdles and will soon be able to get groceries autonomously. But this thing was tentatively on track to be produced last year. I am sure this is just a minor delay, much like the fully autonomous vehicles which owners will be able to rent out to others as taxis, which is also assuredly mere weeks away.