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Tesla Builds Optimus Academy to Train Robots
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Speaking on Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call, Musk said the company is building a robot training system called "Optimus Academy" and plans to manufacture roughly 10,000 to 20,000 Optimus units, having them generate training data through autonomous practice. Tesla has begun initial production on a high-volume Optimus production line at its Fremont, California factory, but expects it will take at least a year or longer to reach a rate of 20,000 units per week, or roughly one million units annualized; the company expects to begin delivering Optimus to external companies by the end of 2027. Musk said robot production still faces numerous engineering challenges, and the product design is also being continuously refined.
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- Tesla Fremont factory begins initial Optimus production, plans to build 10,000 to 20,000 units first for training at Optimus Academy
In its third-quarter earnings report, Tesla confirmed that the Optimus humanoid robot production line at its Fremont factory has begun initial production, with the first batch of robots meeting mass-production manufacturing standards rolling off the line; the line is planned for an annual capacity of 1 million units. On the earnings call, Musk said the plan is to first build about 10,000 to 20,000 robots and send them to a training facility called Optimus Academy to practice autonomously, using the resulting data to iterate the next generation of AI models, and he expects deliveries to external companies to begin around the end of 2027.
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- Tesla builds Optimus Academy training system, plans to make 10,000 to 20,000 robots for autonomous practice
At Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call, Musk revealed that the company is building a robot training system called Optimus Academy and plans to manufacture about 10,000 to 20,000 Optimus robots so they can generate training data through autonomous practice.
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- Tesla Q3 net profit falls 43%; Musk says Optimus will be delivered externally next year, with output of 20,000 units per week by end of 2027
Tesla reported Q3 2026 revenue of $28.046 billion and net profit of $787 million, down 43% year over year. On the earnings call, Musk said Optimus has entered production on a line at the Fremont factory and is expected to be delivered to external customers by the end of next year, reaching an output rate of 20,000 units per week by the end of 2027. He also said an "Optimus Academy" will let the robots observe human tasks and practice repeatedly in simulation and reality to form a reinforcement-learning flywheel, and that the AI 5 chip will be integrated into Optimus around April next year.
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