[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-tesla-starts-early-optimus-production-with-big-work-left":10,"sections":49},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":38,"tags":39,"sources":44,"feedback":48,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":48,"total_tokens":48},12145,"tesla-starts-early-optimus-production-with-big-work-left","Tesla Starts Early Optimus Production With Big Work Left","Elon Musk said early Optimus production has started in Fremont, then listed hands, safety, reliability and AI as unfinished.","Tesla has begun early production of Optimus, its humanoid robot, on a high-volume line in Fremont, California. CEO Elon Musk also said on Tesla's earnings call Wednesday that the robot is a long way from finished.\n\nThe list of open problems was specific. Musk named the robot's hands, its safety, its reliability and durability, and the artificial intelligence needed to make it a productive tool. \"There's still quite a lot of work to do with regard to the AI and the robot for it to be truly useful for open-ended tasks,\" he said. He then added a longer-range prediction: \"At some point, there will be more humanoid robots on Earth than there are humans.\"\n\nThose caveats cover most of what makes a robot worth buying. Hands determine whether it can handle real objects. Safety decides whether it can work near people. Reliability and durability decide whether it keeps working after the first few weeks. The AI is what turns a machine that can walk and wave into one that can do unscripted jobs. The remarks as described include no output target, price, customer or ship date.\n\nThat makes \"in production\" a narrower claim than it sounds. Starting a line is a real milestone, and building robots in volume is one way to find out what breaks, since lab demos rarely expose wear and failure rates. But it is a manufacturing step, not a statement that the product works. The distance between the two is Musk's own to-do list.\n\nThe \"more robots than humans\" line is a forecast with no date attached, and \"at some point\" does the heavy lifting. The nearer question is which gap closes slowest. Hardware problems like hands and durability tend to yield to iteration. Open-ended AI, the thing Musk singled out, is the part nobody has a schedule for.","[\"tesla\",\"optimus\",\"robotics\",\"humanoid-robots\"]","2026-10-22T12:53:27.000Z","2026-10-22T13:50:14.303Z","2026-10-22T13:50:14.539Z","published",null,[24,30,34],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Remove the invented date 'October 21' (the source says only 'Wednesday', so use that or verify the date independently), and soften the lede and headline claim that Musk said the robot 'is not yet useful' or 'isn't ready' to what he actually said: significant work remains on the AI and robot for it to be 'truly useful for open-ended tasks'.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Remove or rephrase the claim that 'the earnings call offered no figures on that' (customers paying for robots), since the source doesn't support a statement about what the full call did or didn't cover; limit it to what the source reports, for example that no customer or revenue details were cited in the reporting.",{"id":35,"reviewer":26,"round":36,"reason":37,"status":29},"editor-r3",3,"The article states the earnings call was on 'October 21', but the source only says 'Wednesday' and gives no date, so remove the invented date (say 'on Tesla's earnings call Wednesday' or confirm the date from a source) and keep everything else.","hardware",[40,41,42,43],"tesla","optimus","robotics","humanoid-robots",[45],{"name":46,"url":47},"The Verge","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002Ftech\u002F1016492\u002Ftesla-optimus-robots-production-musk-q3-earnings",0,{"sections":50},[51,56,61,66,71,75,80,85,90,95,100,105,110,115],{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"AI","ai",7062,"2026-10-22T17:00:39.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Security","security",1042,"2026-10-22T15:11:26.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Policy","policy",570,"2026-10-22T16:00:29.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":69,"latest_published_at":70},"Deals","deals",558,"2026-10-22T13:00:00.000Z",{"name":72,"slug":38,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Hardware",287,"2026-10-22T16:18:47.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",281,"2026-10-22T14:09:11.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Science","science",214,"2026-10-22T14:59:28.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Startups","startups",142,"2026-10-22T16:05:08.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"Software","software",138,"2026-10-22T04:52:10.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",122,"2026-10-21T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"General","general",96,"2026-10-22T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":106,"slug":107,"count":108,"latest_published_at":109},"Gaming","gaming",86,"2026-10-22T13:17:59.000Z",{"name":111,"slug":112,"count":113,"latest_published_at":114},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":116,"slug":117,"count":118,"latest_published_at":119},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]