{"id":199857,"date":"2025-10-24T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=199857"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:30:14","slug":"elon-musk-planning-to-build-an-army-of-1-million-humanoid-optimus-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/199857\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk planning to build an \u2018army\u2019 of 1 million humanoid Optimus robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>American billionaire Elon Musk has announced Tesla&rsquo;s plans to create an &ldquo;army of one million&rdquo; humanoid Optimus robots, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/elon-musk-wants-strong-influence-over-the-robot-army-hes-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wired<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>As noted, full-scale production is expected to begin by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting with investors, Musk expressed concern about maintaining control over Tesla in the future, given the potential influence of the &ldquo;robot army.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t feel comfortable creating this army of robots unless I have significant influence,&rdquo; Musk said at the investor meeting.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Tesla plans to develop a production prototype of the Optimus robot in February or March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>As Wired notes, Tesla shareholders are set to vote in November on a board proposal to grant Musk a $1 trillion compensation package over the next ten years. The deal would also increase Musk&rsquo;s stake in Tesla from 13% to 25%.<\/p>\n<p>However, Musk would receive the payment only if he meets certain ambitious milestones &mdash; including delivering 20 million vehicles, launching 1 million robotaxis for commercial use, raising Tesla&rsquo;s valuation to $8.5 trillion, and delivering 1 million humanoid Optimus robots.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American billionaire Elon Musk has announced Tesla&rsquo;s plans to create an &ldquo;army of one million&rdquo; humanoid Optimus robots, Wired reports. As noted, full-scale production is expected to begin by the end of 2026. During a meeting with investors, Musk expressed concern about maintaining control over Tesla in the future, given the potential influence of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":199838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,47,50,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-society","category-science","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199861,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199857\/revisions\/199861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}