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Tesla, Inc. is an American multinational automotive, energy and AI company founded in 2003 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. Best known for its electric vehicles and energy storage products, Tesla is also developing the Optimus general-purpose humanoid robot...
BYD's First Humanoid Robot Packs 31 Degrees of Freedom and a Millimeter-Precise Hand — Oct 12, 2026 — BYD has revealed the design of its first self-developed humanoid robot through a newly published patent, a 1.61-meter machine built for dealership ser...NYC Council Rolls Out 10-Bill AI Package With Kill Switches And Whistleblower Bounties — Sep 27, 2026 — Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a 10-bill package on 25 September that would force AI companies operating in New York City to install kill switches, subm...Tesla Ramps Optimus To Hundreds Per Week As Hands And Generalization Still Bottleneck — Sep 27, 2026 — Tesla has scaled Optimus output from a few dozen units per week in Q2 to several hundred per week in August 2026, but hand assembly, sensor reliabilit...Tesla Finally Puts The Semi Into Volume Production, Nine Years Late — Sep 26, 2026 — Tesla says it will build 50,000 electric Semis a year at a new factory next to the Reno Gigafactory, kicking off customer deliveries after nine years...Tesla-Powered Green Turtle Battery Breaks Ground In Belgium At 2.8 GWh — Sep 26, 2026 — GIGA Storage and Tesla start building the 700 MW / 2.8 GWh Green Turtle BESS backed by €450M and InfraVia equity.Nvidia Picks Hitachi Energy, LG And Tesla For DSX Ready BESS Qualification — Sep 26, 2026 — Nvidia's new DSX Ready qualification programme launched on September 24, 2026 with three battery energy storage vendors — Hitachi Energy, LG Energy So...Tesla Opens Sparks Semi Factory, Names PepsiCo, DHL, Einride Customers — Sep 24, 2026 — Tesla launched its dedicated Sparks, Nevada Semi factory with 11 customer-branded trucks, naming PepsiCo, DHL, Einride, IMC Logistics and a 2,500-unit...Tesla Reopens Roadster Reservations At $50,000 Ahead Of October 1 Reveal — Sep 23, 2026 — Tesla is once again taking $50,000 deposits — $5,000 upfront plus a $45,000 wire within 10 days — on a car with no delivery date, promising a 620-mile...Tesla's Austin Robotaxi Fleet Crashes Back To 8 Vehicles After Cybercab Pump — Sep 23, 2026 — Tesla's active Austin robotaxi fleet fell to just 8 vehicles in the past week, after briefly spiking above 100 for the September 3 Cybercab launch eve...Tesla's Optimus Mass-Production Audit Lands In Ningbo, Chinese Supplier Stocks Jump — Sep 18, 2026 — A Tesla team arrived in Ningbo on September 16 to audit the mass-production readiness of Optimus, sending shares of Chinese suppliers Joyson Electroni...Waymo Turns On Public Driverless Rides In Las Vegas, Its 15th U.S. City — Sep 17, 2026 — Waymo has begun public driverless robotaxi service on the Las Vegas Strip, opening its 15th U.S. commercial market and capping a four-city September e...Boring Company Raises $3B Series D at $23B Valuation, UAE Leads — Sep 11, 2026 — The Boring Company closed a $3 billion Series D at a $23 billion valuation led by the UAE, with Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Temasek, Valor Equity Pa...Waymo Opens Paid Robotaxi Rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa — Sep 10, 2026 — Waymo brings driverless commercial service to 14 U.S. cities as its Zeekr-built Ojai minivan debuts in Denver and San Diego.Einride orders 500 Tesla Semis in largest electric big-rig deployment yet — Sep 7, 2026 — Einride will buy 500 Tesla Semis over 24 months and run them on its Saga AI fleet platform for shippers including Amazon — the largest publicly disclo...Tesla AI Chief Says Robotaxi Will Go 24/7 In About A Month On Full Self-Driving v15 — Sep 7, 2026 — Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy told an X user that 24-hour Robotaxi rides will arrive "next month or so" once the next Full Self-Driving v15 module mer...Waymo Adds Denver, San Diego And Tampa To Robotaxi Map, Now Live In 14 US Cities — Sep 7, 2026 — Waymo has begun offering public robotaxi rides in Denver, San Diego and Tampa, extending its commercial network to 14 US cities and rolling out the ne...NHTSA Opens Audit Query Into Tesla Cybercab Hours After Austin Rollout — Sep 5, 2026 — The NHTSA opened Audit Query AQ26002 into Tesla's Cybercab self-certification just hours after the wheel-and-pedal-free robotaxi hit Austin streets, e...Zoox Robotaxi Service Expands To Las Vegas Airport, First Driverless AV At LAS — Sep 4, 2026 — Amazon-owned Zoox extended its commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas to Harry Reid International Airport on September 3, becoming the first driverl...Tesla Unveils Production Cybercab At September 3 Austin Launch Event — Sep 3, 2026 — Tesla formally unveiled the two-seat production Cybercab at a downtown Austin event on September 3, 2026, kicking off its next robotaxi push against W...Waymo Turns On Driverless Rides In San Diego, Tampa And Denver As Zoox Tests Houston — Sep 2, 2026 — Alphabet-owned Waymo opened paid robotaxi service in three new US cities on the same day Amazon's Zoox said it will start supervised testing in Housto...