Tesla Says Optimus Is the First Robot That Learns by Watching

Optimus moved into production this quarter at Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory, where the humanoid robot learns from what it sees instead of code written to instruct it. “You’ve probably seen lots of impressive demonstrations of robots on the internet,” CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday (July 22) on the company’s second-quarter earnings call . “Those demonstrations are pre-programmed or remote controlled.