Tesla targets 10M Optimus robots — currently folding laundry

The long-promised humanoid-robot factories are finally coming online. Tesla has begun Optimus production at its Fremont plant this quarter. With a long-term target of ten million units a year out of Giga Texas. Across the country, Figure AI is now valued at thirty-nine billion dollars. Apptronik has raised five hundred and twenty million at a five-billion valuation. One X is shipping its NEO model to home-beta households. The legion is finally assembled. Meanwhile in early-access households. The robots execute the tasks for which they were designed. Slowly. Very slowly. Wall Street pegs the humanoid market at roughly thirteen billion dollars by twenty-twenty-nine. The founders remain confident. The robot remains folding.