Elon Musk: Thousands of Optimus Robots Will Soon Handle Tesla’s Most Boring Jobs

Elon Musk: We will deploy thousands of Optimus robots in our factories.

“This year, we expect to close the loop with Optimus being used internally at Tesla.

We obviously can easily use several thousand humanoid robots at Tesla for the most boring, annoying tasks in the factory.

The tasks nobody wants to do, where we have to beg people to do this task. The robot’s totally happy to do the boring, dangerous, repetitive tasks that no human wants to do.

That's also some of the easiest use cases for us to have Optimus do things.

In the body line, if you're transporting pieces of sheet metal to the robot welding line for the body, and you just have to non-stop take things from one fixture to another fixture. It's a very boring job.

There's a ton of boring jobs, tedious jobs, slightly dangerous jobs that are perfect for Optimus. So, we expect to use Optimus for those tasks at our factories, and that'll help us close the loop for improvement this year.”

Tesla Financial Results Webcast, January 29, 2025