April 10, 2012 - At the first quarter 2025 All Hands Meeting, theTeslaCEO Elon Musk says the company will produce its first batch of Optimus Humanoid Robot.. This program moves forward from Tesla'srecruitmentIt's also evident on the page that a major expansion of its humanoid robotics team is steadily progressing.
As of today, Tesla has about 80 Optimus-related jobs listed on its official website's jobs page. These positions are located at Tesla's various production sites in the U.S., including Palo Alto and Fremont in California, Sparks in Nevada and Austin in Texas. With positions ranging from design to software development to manufacturing, this massive hiring effort is a clear indication that Tesla is fully committed to expanding and growing its Optimus team.
1AI notes that Musk has previously said that Optimus is expected to be Tesla's most world-impacting product, and its size could be as much as ten times that of the company's second-largest product, which makes it easy to understand Tesla's aggressive layout in terms of talent reserves.
The Optimus humanoid robot was first revealed by Tesla at Artificial Intelligence Day 2021. At the time, Tesla only showed a static model of the humanoid robot. Since then, however, Optimus has come on leaps and bounds, with Tesla introducing a number of key improvements to it. Among them, Optimus' hand design realizes 22 degrees of freedom, allowing it to efficiently perform a variety of tasks in both factory and home environments. Additionally, Optimus' walking posture has been brought closer to that of a human, as is evident in its recent video posted on the social media platform X. These improvements undoubtedly make Optimus significantly more competitive in the field of humanoid robots.
At an all-hands meeting in the first quarter of 2025, Musk also revealed specific goals regarding the production of the first Optimus humanoid robots. Tesla internally plans to produce enough parts to assemble 10,000 to 12,000 Optimus robots this year. However, given that this is a completely new product, there are a number of entirely new challenges from parts to final assembly.Musk believes that if he can actually produce 5,000 humanoid robots, it will be a success.Musk described the first 5,000 Optimus robots as an "army". Musk described the first 5,000 Optimus robots as an "army," saying: "This year, we expect to be able to produce about 5,000 Optimus robots. Technically, our goal is to have enough parts to produce 10,000, and maybe even 12,000. But since this is a brand new product and everything needs to be started from scratch, if we can reach half of the 10,000 units, we will have been successful. But even with only 5,000 robots, that's the size of a Roman legion."
