The Tesla CEO pleads with employees (and, indirectly, to investors) to hang onto their stocks.

Now, in the face of financial turmoil, Musk announced that Tesla would build 5,000 Optimus robots this year, with a goal of ...

Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) plans to manufacture 5,000 units of its Optimus humanoid robot this year, CEO Elon Musk revealed during a ...

Tesla introduced a refined version of the Optimus robot at a glitzy event late in 2024. At the event, Musk told the crowd that Optimus was “the biggest product ever of any kind.” It was later ...

Before that, in around 2026, he plans to send a Starship rocket to Mars carrying an Optimus, Tesla's humanoid robot. This mission will serve as a full-scale test for future human expeditions.

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker XPeng (XPEV) is reportedly set to invest up to $13.8 billion (100 billion yuan) on humanoid robots to rival American EV maker Tesla’s (TSLA) Optimus Bot.