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According to foreign media reports on July 23, CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla will start using humanoid robots next year.

Musk wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday morning (July 22): Tesla will launch a truly useful humanoid robot next year, but the production volume will be low for internal use of Tesla, and hopes to achieve large-scale production in 2026 for use by other companies.

Like many of Musk's comments that make headlines, this one was in response to a post by another user who had published a chart showing former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo's predictions for advances in artificial intelligence (AI).

In April, Musk told investors that Tesla's humanoid robot Project Optimus would be in production at the factory by the end of the year. Optimus will be worth more than all of Tesla's other products combined.

In the same earnings call, the CEO promised to develop a perceptive humanoid robot that could navigate real-world situations and perform tasks on the fly. That’s what’s coming, and of all the robot makers, Tesla is best positioned to achieve size reduction by enabling efficient reasoning about the robot itself.

A few weeks ago, Musk said the company would launch a self-driving taxi on August 8, something the billionaire has been promising since 2019.

Tesla's self-driving car efforts have hit a roadblock recently as accidents continue to occur despite a December recall of more than 2 million vehicles and a request from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for more information about its Autopilot system.

The Justice Department is investigating whether Tesla committed securities fraud or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about the self-driving features of its electric vehicles.

“While the open road presents many challenges for autonomous driving solutions, the closed-loop ecosystem of warehouses and distribution centers offers a different arena for innovative technologies to operate,” PYMNTS wrote in May.

As May Mobility CFO Anna Brunelle said in February, “I believe that within our lifetime, not just cars, but every moving machine on the planet will be autonomous. And so will the intelligent infrastructure that oversees and supports it.”

The market is responding to the demands and opportunities presented by autonomous vehicles, with companies such as Figure working with BMW to deploy general-purpose robots in automotive manufacturing environments.

Meanwhile, Walmart has quietly begun transforming its distribution centers, rolling out 19 autonomous electric forklifts across four of its facilities, marking a major advance in the use of artificial intelligence robots in industrial settings.