Overview
- At Tesla’s Nov. 6 shareholder meeting, Elon Musk said Optimus could follow offenders and stop them from committing crimes, calling it a more humane form of containment.
- Musk also claimed the robot could eliminate poverty, enable a form of universal high income, and perform surgery better than top human surgeons, describing its economic impact as potentially vast.
- Shareholders approved a $1 trillion compensation package tied to performance benchmarks that include Optimus-related targets, with goals such as selling one million robots over the next decade.
- Tesla says it is building its first high-volume Optimus production line in Fremont, California, and plans a 10 million‑unit‑per‑year line at its Texas Gigafactory.
- Despite Musk’s projections, Newsweek reports Optimus is still in early testing with only limited footage of basic tasks, even as Musk touts internal prototypes roaming Tesla offices and targets internal use in 2025 and broader production in 2026.