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

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 (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.

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

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

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 ...

Robots cooking and cleaning in your house. Building cars and even bigger machines in factories. Serving you burgers at a 1950s-style diner. That's the futuristic vision Elon Musk believes will one day drive his electric vehicle company Tesla to a ...