Tesla is preparing to turn its Austin manufacturing hub into a proving ground for its humanoid robots, positioning the Texas site as both a car plant and a training arena for Optimus. Internal briefings to staff suggest the company wants to capture human work on the factory floor and feed that data into an emerging

Hyundai’s Boston Dynamics has hired Milan Kovac, Tesla’s former senior vice president and head of the Optimus humanoid robot

The Austin push is planned for February, insiders told Business Insider. Tesla has been training Optimus in its Fremont factory for more than a year.

Tesla gained 3% after Musk said Optimus humanoid robots will be sold to consumers by end of 2026 following safety testing.

Tesla (TSLA) will start collecting data to train its Optimus humanoid robots at its Austin Gigafactory, the company informed its workers last week. Read more here.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Wednesday delivered a strong endorsement of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot, with a tweet and accompanying video declaring it the “dawn of the physical Agentforce revolution” and a “productivity game changer” that ...

Tesla’s annual profit plunged to its lowest level since the pandemic five years ago as it lost the title of the world’s biggest electric vehicle maker to a Chinese rival and boycotts hammered sales. The EV company run by Elon Musk reported Wednesday that net income last year dropped 46% to $3.

Telsa’s revenue and profits tumbled in the fourth quarter, capping off the most difficult year for the electric automaker since it became profitable six years ago.