Build roughly 10,000 Optimus robots in 2025 (internal plan)
295 days past deadline
Elon Musk said this on 29 January 2025. The deadline is 2025 (“by the end of December this year”). No delivery is on record yet.
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This promiseBuild roughly 10,000 Optimus robots in 2025 (internal plan)295 days past deadlineDeadline 2025
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What happened, in order
- 29 Jan 2025Promised
Elon Musk: Build roughly 10,000 Optimus robots in 2025 (internal plan). Deadline 2025.
- 31 Dec 2025Deadline passed
2025 (“by the end of December this year”), with no delivery on record.
- 22 Oct 2026Today · 295 days past deadline
Details and sources
“The normal internal plan calls for roughly 10,000 Optimus robots to be built this year.”
- Said by
- Elon Musk, 29 January 2025 · Q4 and FY 2024 earnings call
- Deadline
- 2025 (“by the end of December this year”), read as the latest date the words allowMusk added that several thousand was more likely than exactly 10,000. A build target, not customer shipments.
- Promised
- ~10,000 built in 2025
- What happened
- In January 2026 Musk described Optimus as still in R&D. Tesla has not published a 2025 build count; Omdia estimated Tesla shipped 150 humanoid robots in 2025.
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Outcome: Stock Analysis · Omdia, 8 January 2026
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