Musk describes the plan to build Optimus units internally for testing before the robot is used beyond Tesla.

Elon Musk · Tesla · Tesla Q1 2026 Financial Results and Q&A Webcast

“and of course uh a very significant increase, well, uh actually releasing Optimus, um but increasing our internal production for testing, um and then probably being able to have Optimus be useful outside of Tesla sometime next year.”

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