Musk: Optimus public sales by 2027
Elon Musk reiterated that Tesla Optimus will start with factory tasks this year and that public sales of high‑reliability Optimus robots could begin by the end of 2027, framing Optimus as Tesla’s flagship product. The timeline underscores Tesla’s bet on real‑world AI, vision, autonomy and manufacturing scale to outcompete rivals. (x.com)
Musk made the remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 22, 2026 during a stage discussion with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. (weforum.org) On Tesla’s Q4 2025 earnings call Musk said the company will wind down Model S and X production in Fremont and repurpose that space for an Optimus line targeting one million units per year. (cnbc.com) He also outlined preparatory work at the Giga Texas campus for a much larger Optimus facility that he said is intended to scale toward a 10‑million‑units‑per‑year line. (humanoidsdaily.com) Shareholders approved Musk’s performance package with over 75% support; the plan’s milestones explicitly link his award to massive deliveries of robotaxes and humanoid robots over the coming decade. (usnews.com) Tesla has moved Optimus training toward a vision‑only data‑collection approach that records workers with multi‑camera rigs instead of relying on motion‑capture suits, a shift the company says accelerates real‑world task learning. (eweek.com) Tesla’s AI leadership has described a unified neural “world‑simulator” architecture intended to let the same end‑to‑end networks used for vehicle FSD transfer to humanoid control and simulation. (humanoidsdaily.com) Musk has publicly cited a long‑term price target of roughly $20,000–$30,000 per Optimus at scale, and Tesla has projected that scaled manufacturing could push per‑unit production cost toward about $20,000. (digitaltrends.com) Markets reacted to the Davos remarks, with Bloomberg reporting Tesla shares rose roughly 1.4% intraday after Musk’s comments. (bloomberg.com)
