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TNB Tech Minute: Musk Says Tesla Aims to Sell Humanoid Robots In Late 2027

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Shares of crypto-infrastructure firm BitGo pop 25% in NYSE debut. And Autodesk will cut 1,000 jobs. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. Elon Musk plans to start

0:40.2

selling humanoid robots to the public by the end of 2027. That's when we are confident that

0:45.9

it's very high reliability, very high safety, and the range of functionality is also very high.

0:53.0

You can basically ask it to do anything you'd like.

0:55.3

Musk spoke earlier today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. His EV company,

1:01.0

Tesla, currently has optimist robots performing basic functions. Musk said he expects them to start

1:06.9

handling more complex factory tasks by the end of this year. The billionaire typically isn't

1:12.3

shy of providing public timelines that can shift. He also said Tesla plans to make self-driving

1:18.4

robotaxies widespread across the U.S. this year. And that's SpaceX, he said the company hopes to

1:24.4

demonstrate this year that both the Starship Rockets Booster and spacecraft

1:28.5

can be reused. Shares of crypto infrastructure firm BitGo opened nearly 25% higher in its New York

1:36.6

Stock Exchange debut today. It marks the first major test for digital asset company IPOs since the

1:42.3

sector's market downturn late last year.

1:44.8

Priced yesterday at $18 a share, the offering valued BitGo at over $2 billion and raised nearly

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