Tesla Optimus begins mass production on Fremont high-volume line; Musk says customer deliveries to start in about a year

At Tesla's Q3 earnings call, Optimus has begun production on the Fremont high-volume line. The company says these are the first production-quality complete units, and that existing manufacturing processes already apply to the commercial product. Musk said training data requires a scale of about 10,000 Optimus units, and Tesla is setting up an Optimus Academy to let the robots learn. Humanoid robots lack real-world data, so they must first learn by watching human guidance, then through self-play in simulation and in reality.