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A new update says Tesla’s robotaxi is now running 24 hours a day in every city where the service is offered, while the company’s chief executive also referenced an “Optimus Academy” meant to train large numbers of humanoid robots on new tasks.
Tesla’s robotaxi service is now operating around the clock in the cities it serves, according to a report carried by Yahoo Finance and syndicated by BeinCrypto. The update says the company’s robotaxi offering has moved to 24/7 service, suggesting Tesla has reached a level of operational stability that allows it to scale beyond daytime or limited-hour deployments.
The same report ties the latest robotaxi rollout to Elon Musk’s broader robotics push. Musk pointed to an “Optimus Academy,” described as a place where Tesla’s humanoid robots can learn new tasks, and the post says the effort could eventually involve as many as 20,000 robots.
Robotaxis are Tesla’s autonomous driving service for paid rides, typically involving a fleet of vehicles managed by Tesla software and sensors rather than human drivers. The shift to 24/7 use, if sustained, is the kind of operational milestone that can matter for utilization and cost, since vehicles and onboard systems can generate service hours continuously rather than on a schedule limited by staffing or demand patterns.
Optimus refers to Tesla’s humanoid robot program. The “Academy” framing in the report is notable because it implies Tesla is trying to accelerate learning and task expansion using many robots at once, rather than relying only on a smaller number of systems and slower iteration cycles.
Still, the report provides limited specifics. It does not detail which cities have moved to 24/7 operation, whether the change is tied to technical updates in autonomy or a change in scheduling and dispatch, or how Tesla is handling edge cases that often arise during overnight hours.
On the robotics side, the “Optimus Academy” concept is also described in broad terms in the report, without disclosing how the training environment works, what kinds of tasks are being prioritized first, or the timeline for scaling to the 20,000-robot figure. Tesla has not, in the information provided here, offered measurable performance targets such as learning rates, task success benchmarks, or certification pathways.
For Tesla investors and observers, the juxtaposition of robotaxi uptime and humanoid-robot training is consistent with the company’s stated strategy to build leverage from automation. If robotaxi operations remain steady while Tesla expands robots’ ability to handle more real-world work, the market could start to treat Tesla as a company pursuing two parallel autonomy businesses, both aimed at reducing the labor and operational costs of transportation and service work.
What to watch next is whether Tesla follows up with clearer operational disclosures. Key indicators would include formal announcements naming the cities in the 24/7 rollout, any metrics on ride availability or incident rates, and more concrete descriptions of what the Optimus Academy trains, how quickly robots improve, and when the scaled training plan reaches production readiness.
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