Konstantinos Laskaris, Tesla Lead Director of Optimus, at the ETH Robotics Club INSPIRE Talk in Switzerland. Konstantinos presented Optimus 2.5 and the work behind it and its predecessors. Here are some highlights from the talk. The sim-to-real gap is propaganda. “It’s not a gap if you haven’t tried to model your robot properly.” Hardware matters …
Konstantinos Laskaris (Tesla Optimus Program Lead/Director) gave an INSPIRE keynote talk at the ETH Robotics Club in Zurich on April 2, 2026 (attended by 400+ students and robotics enthusiasts). He presented Optimus 2.5 (and predecessors), showcased the robot live, discussed hardware progress, and revealed slides on Optimus Gen 3 as the first “mass manufacturable” model. …
Elon Musk says Optimus 3 (teslabot) is essentially complete and will be by far the most advanced robot in the world. Nothing’s even close. The production start is the Summer 2026. It will be a very slow/low-volume ramp initially. There will be high-volume production in the ~Summer 2027. Tesla will try to release a new …
Elon drops the big things on FSD, cybercab and optimus, battery and cybercab factory in Europe. If authorities cooperate, Tesla would make Gigaberlin the largest factory in Europe. 1. Full Self-Driving (FSD) March 20, 2026: FSD regulatory approval in Europe (confirmed by Dutch authorities. Rollout starts immediately after). 2026 (this year): “You will be able …
Tesla Cybercab production has started to scale. Hundreds of Cybercabs are in various stages of build right now at Giga Texas (in the “yellow section,” grid Y57 on the east side). Joe Tegtmeyer has seen it and described it to Herbert Ong. The Unboxed [giant lego method] manufacturing is live and working. Tesla builds five …
How will distributed AI and AI Data centers in space let Elon, XAI, SpaceX and Tesla dominant superAI with 5 to 100 times the compute and energy for compute of competitors? The video goes over the future of XAI. SpaceX and Tesla with distributed AI used for inference and digital humans and rapid deployment of …
What does Elon mean when he says Optimus Will be the Von Neumann Probe? Elon is suggesting that Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot could become the key physical universal constructor at the heart of a real von Neumann probe. Optimus is designed to be a general-purpose humanoid robot that can do any physical task a human …
Baron reiterated his unwavering belief in Musk’s companies. Ron Baron does not expect to sell my personal Tesla or SpaceX shares in my lifetime. 65% of his personal wealth is tied to Musk’s ventures (40% in Tesla, 25% in SpaceX, and the rest in related funds like xAI). Baron highlighted Baron Capital’s has made over …
The Tesla Optimus V3 will ignite the Humanoid bot revolution and has solved the hands problem. There are three major problems really good hands, really good AI mind that understands the real world and will be able to made at scale in the millions. There are also unmentioned issues of durability and being able to …
Tesla is just over $1 trillion now but if Elon Musk can achieve all 12 levels of his pay package the company will be $8.5 trillion. He does not start getting paid until he nearly doubles the stock to $619. If you get 400-500 shares now for about $130000, he will make you a millionaire …
Tesla will make an AI6 chip that will be the chip for vehicles, robots, and data centers and it will unify and build on the Dojo’s chip design. Samsung’s Texas fab will produce the chips as part of a $16.5 billion deal. This could be at least 16 million chips and maybe over 32 million. …