July 23, 2026

Musk says Optimus will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled

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Elon Musk told investors on Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call that Optimus will be “the hardest product to scale manufacturing that we’ve ever made at Tesla,” warning that the humanoid robot has no existing supply chain and that every component is...