{"id":246458,"date":"2026-01-22T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/246458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:33:09","slug":"tesla-jumps-as-musk-says-he-expects-optimus-sales-next-year-european-and-chinese-fsd-approval-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/246458\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla jumps as Musk says he expects Optimus sales next year, European and Chinese FSD approval next month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tesla<\/a> CEO Elon Musk now says he thinks the company\u2019s Optimus robots will be for sale to the public \u201cby the end of next year.\u201d <\/p>\n

According to Musk, \u201cThat\u2019s when we are confident that there is very high reliability, very high safety, and the range of functionality is also very high.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many of Musk\u2019s other timelines<\/a>, that\u2019s later than he previously predicted. In 2024, for example, Musk said<\/a> the AI robots would be for sale in 2025. <\/p>\n

Speaking with BlackRock<\/a> CEO Larry Fink on a panel today at the World Economic Forum, Musk said the robots are currently doing \u201csimple tasks\u201d in Tesla factories, but believes \u201cthey\u2019ll be doing more complex tasks and be deployed in an industrial environment\u201d by the end of this year, before going on sale to the public in 2027.<\/p>\n

Musk forecasts a future with \u201cbillions\u201d of AI robots that \u201csaturate all human needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a separate topic, Musk was bullish on regulatory approval for what Tesla calls Full Self-Driving technology in markets outside the US. \u201cWe hope to get supervised Full Self-Driving approval in Europe, hopefully next month, and then maybe a similar timing for China,\u201d he said. Musk has said in the past that the pending regulatory approval for FSD in Europe is a key reason why Tesla\u2019s sales in the region<\/a> have been tanking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tesla CEO Elon Musk now says he thinks the company\u2019s Optimus robots will be for sale to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-246458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}