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Tesla is a robotics company founded 2003, based in United States, developing 2 robots primarily in the Humanoid category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Tesla has no confirmed funding round on file and has 4 cited customers but no deployment on record.
Shipped
4customers cited
named in public sources · no deployment on record
- Tesla· 2025builtin.com ↗
- Inc. (internal use)· 2025builtin.com ↗
- Tesla Fremont Factory· 2026blog.robozaps.com ↗
- Tesla Austin Factory· 2026blog.robozaps.com ↗
A deployment is recorded when a public source names both the customer and the robot, or the maker confirms it. Nothing here counts against Tesla.
In Humanoid, UBTECH Robotics, Agility Robotics and SoftBank Robotics have deployment evidence on file.
Add a deployment →Electric vehicles, energy storage, and AI robotics
Tesla, Inc. develops the Optimus humanoid robot alongside electric vehicles, battery storage, and AI/software systems. Tesla positions Optimus as a general-purpose bi-pedal autonomous humanoid robot designed for unsafe, repetitive, or boring tasks, with internal factory use as a key early deployment path in the U.S.
Company facts
- HQ
- Austin, United States
- Founded
- 2003 · 23 yrs
- Employees
- 140,000+
- Stage
- Public company
- Website
- www.tesla.com
- View profile ↗
RoboScore
58.30 RoboScore + 5.46 Momentum· Strong evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #30 of 107·Humanoid·best robot 57.59 + depth 1.67 + news 5.46 = total 64.72
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
Tesla said Optimus would enter low production for internal use, with higher production for other companies targeted for 2026.
Tesla unveiled Optimus as a general-purpose humanoid robot prototype.
Press coverage
- AI & Robotics | Tesla
Tesla
- Optimus (robot) - Wikipedia
Wikipedia
In the news
8 events · last 90 days
+5.46momentumof 15 maxTesla Targets 1,000 Optimus Robots Produced Weekly In Rapid Production Ramp-Up
In the news
8 events · last 90 days
Why Tesla has been in the news, across 8 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
NHTSA
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
A filing records that someone reported something. It is not a finding that the robot caused it, and we make no such finding.
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Active products by Tesla
2 shown| # | Category | Key specs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Tesla Optimus Gen 2 | Humanoid | Height 1.73 m·Weight 57 kg | $30K | 2023 | 57.6 |
| 2 |  | Optimus Gen 3 | Humanoid | Height 1.73 m·Weight 62 kg | $30K | 2025 | 46.5 |
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