Tesla unveils Optimus Academy to let humanoid robots teach themselves

Elon Musk says Tesla intends to build 10,000 to 20,000 Optimus units that will practice real-world tasks to train their own AI Tesla has a new school, and the students are made of metal. The company introduced Optimus Academy, a training program where its humanoid robots learn real-world tasks by actually doing them. The reveal came during Tesla’s Q3 2026 earnings call on October 21, 2026. It addresses a problem that has quietly shadowed the Optimus project from the start: where does a robot get its experience? Tesla describes the Academy as a large-scale internal initiative. Early Optimus units will be put to work on real-world tasks, and the data they generate will feed back into the robots’ artificial intelligence models.

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