Robotics Tesla says Optimus production starts at Fremont in late July
Tesla plans to start Optimus V3 production at Fremont in late July on the former Model S/X line, with Musk warning early output will be slow and hard to forecast.
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Robotics Tesla plans to start Optimus V3 production at Fremont in late July on the former Model S/X line, with Musk warning early output will be slow and hard to forecast.
Robotics BMW is moving Figure's humanoid from the body shop to logistics at its Spartanburg plant, after the previous generation logged 11 months and 30,000 cars on the line.
Robotics At Automate in Chicago, perennial vaporware artist Faraday Future priced a 5-foot-8 humanoid at $89,900 — and the unsettling part is the spec sheet is real.
Robotics AGIBOT will stream its G2 humanoids doing quality inspection on a live consumer-electronics mass-production line for six days straight — the job, not a demo.
Robotics Humanoid production lines are scaling to one robot per hour while actual paid deployments remain in the single digits — supply is racing far ahead of demand.
Robotics Sanctuary AI reports a 99.5%+ success rate on a contact-rich wire-plugging task at a Tier 1 auto supplier — and quietly admits the win required no humanoid at all.
Robotics At VivaTech, Foxconn showed a humanoid doing the pick-and-place and screw-fastening that defines its assembly lines — trained on simulation, not a salaried worker's months of practice.
Robotics Rivian's RJ Scaringe gave the first detailed look at Mind Robotics, a >$3B humanoid startup whose first customer and live testing ground is Rivian's own plant.
Robotics Tesla is ending Model S and Model X production at Fremont to convert the lines to Optimus humanoids, with Gen 3 mass production targeted for summer 2026.
Robotics Persona AI's Michael Perry told Seoul Forum 2026 on May 27 that humanoid robots are 'a different category of capital' that addresses $1 trillion in manufacturing revenue lost annually to labor shortage — citing Ulsan shipyards' average worker age of 48.3 and 2.1 million unfilled US manufacturing jobs by 2030.
Robotics It took Agibot nearly two years to build its first 1,000 humanoid robots. It took three months to build the last 5,000. The exponential curve just showed up for work, and it did not bring snacks.