Forget margins. Elon Musk wants to reinvent society with a robot that can walk, work, operate without sleep, and—according to him—perform surgery with precision so humanlike, you'll need to poke it just to make sure it's not a person in a suit.
Speaking on Tesla Inc.'s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Q3 2025 earnings call last month, Musk doubled down on his sky-high ambitions for Optimus, the company's humanoid robot project. The Tesla CEO called it "an infinite money glitch," predicting it would not only become a key revenue stream for the company—but possibly the most transformative product Tesla has ever built.
