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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 Confirms August Humanoid Robot Debut Inside Its Di Space Venues — Aug 29, 2026 — BYD told China Securities Journal its first humanoid robot will appear this month at Di Space, its offline experience-centre network, alongside plans...Waymo Challenges Tesla's Camera-Only Autonomy Ahead Of Cybercab Rollout — Aug 28, 2026 — Waymo is publicly pushing back on Tesla's camera-only autonomy playbook, arguing that reliable Level 4 driverless operation requires redundant percept...Nevada Clears Tesla, Waymo And Uber For Up To 8,000 Paid Robotaxis In Clark County — Aug 25, 2026 — The Nevada Transportation Authority granted Tesla up to 5,000 driverless taxis, Waymo up to 1,000 and Uber up to 1,000 through Zoox and Motional, open...Cummins Wins Its Largest-Ever BESS Deal For A U.S. AI Data Center — Aug 25, 2026 — Cummins said its Power Systems business will supply its biggest-ever battery energy storage system to a large U.S. data center project, using LFP bloc...Tesla Recalls Nearly 3 Million EVs In China Over Hidden Door Handles — Aug 24, 2026 — Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels and push software updates to help occupants find hidden manual door releases, in China's...Nevada Approves Up to 8,000 Robotaxis For Tesla, Uber And Waymo In Las Vegas — Aug 23, 2026 — Nevada's transportation regulator unanimously cleared Tesla, Uber and Waymo to run paid robotaxi services across Clark County, unlocking up to 8,000 d...Tesla Sets Cybercab Launch Event For September 3 In Austin — Aug 22, 2026 — Tesla has begun sending invitations for a Cybercab launch event in Austin, Texas on September 3, taking the two-seat driverless robotaxi from Warner B...Nevada Clears Tesla, Uber And Waymo For 7,000 Robotaxis In Clark County — Aug 22, 2026 — The Nevada Transportation Authority unanimously granted commercial autonomous-vehicle permits to Tesla, Uber and Waymo, clearing them to deploy up to...LG Energy Opens $4B Michigan Plant For Tesla Megapack 3 LFP Supply — Aug 21, 2026 — LG Energy Solution cut the ribbon on a $4B lithium-iron-phosphate cell factory in Lansing, Michigan built to supply Tesla's next-generation Megapack 3...Nevada Caps Tesla's Vegas Robotaxi Fleet at 10 — It Asked for 5,000 — Aug 19, 2026 — The Nevada Transportation Authority has granted Tesla an Autonomous Vehicle Network Company permit to run driverless cars in Las Vegas — but capped th...Arevon Fires Up 300MW/1,200MWh Nighthawk BESS, Its Largest Standalone Battery — Aug 14, 2026 — Arevon Energy has brought its 300MW/1,200MWh Nighthawk battery storage project in Poway online under a long-term PG&E contract — its largest standalon...Unitree's $900M Shanghai IPO Oversubscribed 8,000 Times by Retail Investors — Aug 12, 2026 — Unitree Robotics said on August 10 its $900 million Shanghai IPO drew retail demand 8,000-plus times the shares on offer, cementing status as China's...Tesla And SpaceX Break Ground On $16.8B Terafab Chip Complex In Grimes County, Texas — Aug 10, 2026 — Elon Musk's two flagship companies formally committed $16.8B to Terafab, a vertically integrated 100M-sq-ft semiconductor complex north of Houston tha...BYD To Unveil First Humanoid Robots In August At Di Space Centres, Escalates Race With Tesla Optimus — Aug 1, 2026 — BYD confirmed it will debut its first humanoid robots in August inside its Di Space experience centres, putting the world's largest EV maker in direct...Tesla Robotaxi Expands to Orlando and Tampa as Austin Fleet Stalls at 17 Cars — Jul 30, 2026 — Tesla switched on driverless Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa on July 21, 2026 — but its Austin flagship still runs on roughly 17 unsupervised ca...Waymo Goes Driverless in Las Vegas With Denver, San Diego and Tampa Next — Jul 30, 2026 — Alphabet's Waymo has activated fully driverless operations in Las Vegas and confirmed Denver, San Diego and Tampa are next, pushing the robotaxi unit...Samsung Launches RX Humanoid Robotics Division Under CEO TM Roh — Jul 25, 2026 — Samsung Electronics officially launched its Robotics eXperience (RX) division on July 21, backing it with the factory-tested Shallow-π VLA model and a...Tesla Q2 2026: $28B Revenue Beat, Cybercab In Production — Jul 23, 2026 — Tesla posted a Q2 revenue beat of $28.24B and hit $100B TTM revenue as it confirmed Cybercab is in production, Optimus production lines are installing...Tesla Robotaxi Adds Tampa And Orlando, Making Florida Its Biggest Autonomy State — Jul 21, 2026 — Tesla flipped its unsupervised Robotaxi service on in Tampa and Orlando on July 21, 2026, expanding Florida to three cities and stacking two new geofe...Gigafactory Malaysia Fires Up ASEAN's First Home-Grown EV Battery Cell Line — Jul 20, 2026 — Malaysian state-linked NanoMalaysia has flipped the switch on Gigafactory Malaysia, a 1,500-square-metre lithium-ion cell plant in Sepang that is the...