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Tesla

Tesla makes 4 robots we track. The furthest along, FSD (Supervised), is at stage 5 of 5: regulator-cleared or mass market.

Website: tesla.com
Based in: United States
Latest milestone: 22 Oct 2026

01Robots

What Tesla makes

Each robot's stage is worked out from its dated, sourced milestones by the same published rules, whoever the maker is.

FSD (Supervised)Self-driving · Driver-assistance softwareStage 5 of 5 · Regulator-cleared or mass marketFull Self-Driving (Supervised) is Tesla software that steers, brakes and speeds up a Tesla owner's car on highways and city streets. The driver must watch the road at all times and stays legally responsible.Sold to Tesla owners as a $99-a-month subscription in the US since February 2026; about 1.48 million active subscriptions in mid-2026 (Tesla-reported).The full record
CybercabSelf-driving · Two-seat robotaxi carStage 4 of 5 · Paying customersThe Cybercab is a two-seat Tesla car built only to drive itself, with no steering wheel or pedals. Since September 2026 it carries riders in Tesla's Robotaxi service in Austin.Rides through Tesla's Robotaxi app in Austin, Texas, only.The full record
Tesla RobotaxiSelf-driving · Robotaxi serviceStage 4 of 5 · Paying customersTesla Robotaxi is Tesla's ride-hailing service using its own self-driving software in Model Y cars and, since September 2026, the Cybercab. Some rides have no Tesla employee aboard; others still carry one.Paid rides in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando and Tampa, plus the San Francisco Bay Area with a safety driver. Phoenix and Las Vegas are being prepared.The full record
OptimusHumanoids · General-purpose humanoidStage 1 of 5 · Demo onlyOptimus is Tesla's humanoid robot, a machine shaped like a person. Tesla says it is meant for dangerous, repetitive or boring work.Built at Tesla's Fremont, California factory. Most units stay inside Tesla for testing, training and data collection. It is not sold to the public.The full record

02Track record

Every dated event

22 Oct 2026MilestoneFSD (Supervised)
Tesla's AI vice president said Tesla was building its own maps from what its cars collectively learn, to fix FSD problems with speed limits, parking and choosing routes.
Electrek, 22 Oct 2026Company-reported
22 Oct 2026SetbackOptimus
Musk said Tesla would start delivering Optimus to outside customers around the end of 2027, saying the hands, durability and AI still needed work first.
Electrek, 22 Oct 2026Company-reported
22 Oct 2026SafetyTesla Robotaxi
NHTSA, the US road-safety agency, was weighing an investigation into claims that Tesla Robotaxis speed through active school zones, covering about 1,000 Model Y and Cybercab vehicles.
Electrek, 22 Oct 2026
21 Oct 2026MilestoneCybercab
Tesla said it was trying to deliver Cybercabs to customers by the end of 2026, adding that all Cybercabs built in Texas so far were going to its own Robotaxi fleet.
Electrek, 21 Oct 2026Company-reported
21 Oct 2026MilestoneFSD (Supervised)
Tesla said it expected unsupervised FSD, meaning customers' cars driving themselves with nobody paying attention, to reach customer cars in the middle of 2027, instead of its usual "end of next year" answer.
Electrek, 21 Oct 2026Company-reported
21 Oct 2026MilestoneFSD (Supervised)
Tesla said it had 1.74 million active FSD subscriptions in its third-quarter 2026 report, up 67% in a year, a count that also includes owners who paid upfront.
Electrek, 21 Oct 2026Company-reported
21 Oct 2026SetbackFSD (Supervised)
Tesla said unsupervised Full Self-Driving, with no driver watching, would reach customer-owned cars in Q2 2027, at first only by owners adding their cars to its Robotaxi fleet inside its zones.
Electrek, 21 Oct 2026Company-reported
21 Oct 2026SetbackFSD (Supervised)
Tesla's AI software head said customer-owned cars might first drive without supervision around the second quarter of next year, later than the fourth-quarter 2026 target Musk had given in April.
TechCrunch, 21 Oct 2026Company-reported
21 Oct 2026MilestoneOptimus
Tesla said it had started making what it called its first production-quality Optimus robots at its Fremont, California factory, with Musk calling it early production and warning of a slow ramp.
TechCrunch, 21 Oct 2026Company-reported
21 Oct 2026MilestoneTesla Robotaxi
Tesla said its Robotaxi service had driven nearly 2 million miles in total with no one supervising by the end of the third quarter of 2026.
Electrek, 21 Oct 2026Company-reported
4 Oct 2026MilestoneCybercab
169 Cybercabs were registered to operate in Austin, according to a fan news site using Texas DMV data. Registration does not show how many carry riders.
Not a Tesla App, 4 Oct 2026
10 Sept 2026SafetyCybercab
NHTSA issued a Special Order telling Tesla to show under oath how the Cybercab meets federal safety standards, with a deadline of 30 September. Not answering fully and truthfully can bring penalties of up to $139 million. No result had been announced by early October.
Electrek, 15 Sept 2026
4 Sept 2026MilestoneCybercab
At launch, only 45 Cybercabs were registered in Texas. Tesla said it had built factory capacity for 125,000 a year.
Axios, 4 Sept 2026
3 Sept 2026SafetyCybercab
NHTSA, the US road-safety agency, opened an audit query into how Tesla certified the Cybercab as meeting federal safety rules, including whether rules written for cars with pedals apply to it. It covers an estimated 1,000 vehicles.
NHTSA audit query AQ26-002, opened 3 Sept 2026
3 Sept 2026MilestoneCybercab
Tesla put the first Cybercabs into its Robotaxi service in Austin, first for invited shareholders and fans, then more widely through the Robotaxi app.
Electrek, 4 Sept 2026
Sept 2026SafetyFSD (Supervised)
A Belgian road safety group found that FSD drove over the limit in 55% of the 30 km/h zones it tested in Brussels, averaging 44 km/h.
Electrek, 22 Oct 2026
Sept 2026MilestoneOptimus
Tesla reportedly plans to lease Optimus, not sell it, to a short list of companies.
Electrek citing The Information, 25 Sept 2026
20 Aug 2026RegulatorTesla Robotaxi
Nevada's Transportation Authority approved Tesla to run up to 5,000 fully driverless cars for paid rides in Clark County, home to Las Vegas. Service had not started as of October 2026.
Nevada Department of Business and Industry, 21 Aug 2026
Aug 2026MilestoneOptimus
Tesla went from a few dozen robots a week in the spring to several hundred a week in August 2026, The Information reported. These are V3 robots, not yet the version Tesla plans to sell.
Electrek citing The Information, 25 Sept 2026
22 July 2026MilestoneFSD (Supervised)
Tesla reported 1.48 million active FSD subscriptions at the end of June 2026, up 56% in a year, and said over 55% of new cars sold in North America came with an FSD subscription.
Tesla Q2 2026 Update, SEC filing, 22 Jul 2026Company-reported
21 July 2026MilestoneTesla Robotaxi
Electrek counted the unsupervised Austin fleet at about 17 active cars when Tampa and Orlando opened. Tesla did not say how many cars it put in Florida.
Electrek, 21 Jul 2026
July 2026MilestoneTesla Robotaxi
Tesla said it launched rides with no monitor aboard in Miami, Orlando and Tampa in July 2026, and widened the unsupervised area in Austin.
Tesla Q2 2026 Update, SEC filing, 22 Jul 2026Company-reported
3 May 2026MilestoneFSD (Supervised)
Tesla said cars using FSD (Supervised) had driven more than 10 billion miles in total.
Electrek, 3 May 2026Company-reported
May 2026MilestoneOptimus
Tesla stopped making its Model S and Model X cars in early May 2026 and turned that Fremont line over to Optimus, according to The Information.
Electrek citing The Information, 25 Sept 2026
17 Feb 2026MilestoneCybercab
Tesla said the first production Cybercab came off the assembly line at its Texas factory. Electrek reported steady production was not expected until April.
Electrek, 17 Feb 2026Company-reported
17 Feb 2026SafetyTesla Robotaxi
Tesla had reported 14 Robotaxi crashes in Austin to NHTSA, the US road-safety agency, since the June 2025 launch. Tesla blacked out the descriptions of the five newest as confidential.
Electrek, 17 Feb 2026
28 Jan 2026MilestoneOptimus
Musk admitted that no Optimus robots were yet doing useful work at Tesla.
Electrek, 25 Sept 2026
23 Jan 2026MilestoneFSD (Supervised)
Tesla said it would stop selling FSD as an $8,000 one-time purchase and sell it only as a subscription.
InsideEVs, Jan 2026Company-reported
22 Jan 2026MilestoneTesla Robotaxi
Tesla began some Robotaxi rides in Austin with no safety monitor inside. Electrek saw chase cars with safety monitors following them.
Electrek, 22 Jan 2026
7 Oct 2025SafetyFSD (Supervised)
NHTSA opened an investigation into Teslas on FSD breaking traffic laws, such as going through red lights and driving the wrong way. It covers about 2.9 million cars; NHTSA counted 58 incidents, including 14 crashes or fires and 23 injuries.
NHTSA investigation PE25-012, opened 7 Oct 2025
July 2025MilestoneTesla Robotaxi
Tesla started a Bay Area service with a safety driver behind the wheel, because it lacked California's approvals for driverless rides.
InsideEVs, Jul 2025
22 June 2025MilestoneTesla Robotaxi
Tesla began Robotaxi rides in Austin for a limited group of Tesla fans, at a flat $4.20 a ride, with a Tesla safety monitor in the front passenger seat.
Engadget, 23 Jun 2025
17 Oct 2024SafetyFSD (Supervised)
NHTSA, the US road-safety agency, opened an investigation into whether FSD can see and react properly when fog, glare or dust make the road hard to see. It covers about 2.4 million cars.
NHTSA investigation PE24-031, opened 17 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024MilestoneCybercab
Tesla showed the Cybercab at an event. Musk said production would begin before 2027 and that it should sell for less than $30,000.
Carscoops, 10 Oct 2024Company-reported
10 Oct 2024MilestoneOptimus
Optimus robots mingled with guests at Tesla's 'We, Robot' event. Bloomberg's sources said staff working remotely oversaw many of those interactions.
TechCrunch, 14 Oct 2024
19 Aug 2021MilestoneOptimus
Elon Musk announced the 'Tesla Bot' at the company's AI Day and said a prototype would probably come the next year.
Reuters via Inquirer, 20 Aug 2021Company-reported

03Money

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Tesla trades as TSLA on NASDAQ. Tesla annual report amendment (SEC Form 10-K/A), 2025, cover page

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