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Musk Says Training Tesla’s Optimus Robots Is Like Raising a Toddler

Tesla says Optimus will learn by watching humans and self-play, with 10,000 to 20,000 robots needed to generate training data.

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Tesla needs to build between 10,000 and 20,000 Optimus humanoid robots so they can learn to perform tasks through practice, Elon Musk said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on 21 October. Tesla has only recently started production on a new Optimus line in Fremont, California. “In order for Optimus to get the training data […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Tesla plans to produce thousands of Optimus robots to learn through practice, a strategy that Elon Musk compares to raising a child. The company, however, still faces design and production challenges before reaching its scale goals.

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BizToc broke the news on Thursday, October 22, 2026.
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