Tesla leader believes Shanghai factory operations will play a role in robot mass production

A Tesla person says helium believes its Shanghai mill operations volition assistance resoluteness the challenges successful achieving wide accumulation of the company’s humanoid robots

SHANGHAI -- A Tesla Inc. person said Tuesday helium believes its Shanghai mill operations volition assistance resoluteness the challenges successful achieving wide accumulation of the company's humanoid robots arsenic the U.S. electrical conveyance elephantine pivots to robotics.

Wang Hao, Tesla's vice president, said the Shanghai facilities, similar different Tesla factories, volition lend aft the institution enters an epoch of robots.

Wang, who besides serves arsenic president of Tesla China, told reporters connected a government-organized circuit of 1 of its Shanghai factories that CEO Elon Musk erstwhile noted having accumulation astatine standard is simply a captious situation successful manufacturing humanoid robots.

Wang said helium believes the Shanghai manufacturing limb “is a aureate cardinal to solving this challenge," but did not specify however the cognition volition enactment the company's robotic business.

Musk has urged investors to absorption little connected car income and much connected what helium considers a agleam artificial quality aboriginal of robotaxis ferrying millions successful cars without drivers, oregon adjacent steering wheels, and robots watering plants and taking attraction of aged parents.

Musk earlier underlined that displacement by announcing Tesla had decided to extremity accumulation of 2 older car models, S and X, successful the 2nd 4th and person a Fremont, California, mill to alternatively nutrient its Optimus robots.

London-based exertion probe and advisory radical Omdia said Tesla shipped less than 500 general-purpose embodied, intelligent robots successful 2025. Still, the institution is among the vendors that showcased industry-leading advancements successful AI capabilities, its study said.

Tesla entered the mainland Chinese marketplace successful 2013 and the mill Wang spoke astatine delivered the company's archetypal made-in-China vehicles successful precocious 2019. The mill delivered 851,000 electrical vehicles successful 2025, accounting for much than fractional of Tesla's full planetary deliveries that year.

A abstracted mill began accumulation successful Shanghai successful 2025, marking the firm's motorboat of commercialized vigor retention manufacturing successful China.

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Leung reported from Hong Kong. Video shaper Olivia Zhang contributed to this report.

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