“The first Optimus that is — that will have all of the Tesla designed actuators, sort of production candidate actuators integrated and walking should be around November-ish,” Musk then said, while adding that the bots will be able to do something useful in Tesla factories starting next year. Why It Matters: Tesla announced the humanoid Optimus two years ago, initially aimed at performing unsafe, repetitive or boring tasks. It introduced the Bumblebee version of the bot in September 2022 and then the Gen 1 Optimus in March 2023. The new version comes 9 months later. "Optimus a year ago could barely walk and now it can do yoga. So, a few years from now, it can probably do ballet," Musk said in October while refusing more details on the Optimus program. Photo by JWCohen on Shutterstock Check out more of Benzinga's Future Of Mobility coverage by following this link.