Stock Score Locked: Want to See it? Benzinga Rankings give you vital metrics on any stock – anytime. Reveal Full Score Move your 401k to Robinhood and get a 3% match on deposits. Get Started Musk then said that Tesla will be providing updates on progress with Optimus every few months and is currently focused on making it safer. "I do think it has the potential to be the most valuable product of any kind ever by far," the CEO added. Roadblocks On The Way: The biggest barrier the company faces with Optimus is getting it to do something useful, a Tesla executive said in January. While the robot can already do moderately specialized tasks, the company is aiming to make it do generalized tasks. During Tesla’s second-quarter earnings call in July, Musk said that the bots will be able to do something useful in Tesla factories starting in 2024. However, the CEO or any other Tesla executive did not provide any timeline for deploying the robot at a Tesla factory this year during the fourth quarter earnings call. Tesla introduced its humanoid bot in 2021 with the initial goal of handling unsafe, repetitive, or tedious tasks. Photo via Shutterstock