Musk details Optimus robot school for 10,000 bots and Terafab timeline

On Tesla's Q3 earnings call, Elon Musk said the company is building an "Optimus academy" and needs 10,000–20,000 robots to generate training data. Terafab will begin commissioning machinery in H1 2027, with first test chips around May–June and volume production targeted for Q3 2028.

• Tesla needs 10,000–20,000 Optimus bots for self-play training data
• Reaching 1M robots a year will take at least a year, up to 20,000 weekly
• Terafab machinery commissioning in 2027, first test chip in May–June
• Terafab volume chip production targeted for Q3 2028