Gate News message, April 24 — Tesla reported first-quarter revenue of US$22.4 billion on April 23, representing a 16% year-over-year increase. The company's global vehicle deliveries exceeded 358,000 units, while production topped 408,000 units. Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory delivered 213,000 vehicl

Gate News message, April 23 — Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed during the company's Q1 earnings call that the third-generation Optimus humanoid robot will enter production in late July or August 2026 at the Fremont, California factory. The company has unveiled its most comprehensive production roadmap

Tesla China announced no immediate plans to mass-produce humanoid robots at its Shanghai Gigafactory. The company is set to release its third-generation robot by 2026, with production lines in Fremont designed to assemble up to one million units yearly.

The 2026 Beijing Yizhuang Half Marathon featured humanoid robots racing 21.0975 km. The autonomous team Qitian Dasheng won in 50:26, while the remote-control team Jueying Chitu finished first in net time but ranked lower due to penalties.

Alibaba plans to launch a quadruped robot through its Amap unit, entering the consumer robotics market. Amap is also exploring humanoid robots. The quadruped market is predicted to grow from $3.45 billion in 2025 to $11.26 billion by 2032.

AgiBot has spun off its quadruped robot division, AgiQuad, which aims for 500 million yuan revenue by 2026 and 10 billion yuan by 2030. This move supports AgiBot's IPO plans in Hong Kong by 2026, amid competition from Unitree Robotics.

Tesla's China President indicated that the Shanghai Gigafactory could manufacture humanoid robots in the future, aligning with CEO Musk's vision and China's national plan for robot production. Compliance with Chinese standards may lead to regional differences in robot development.

OpenMind’s Fabric Foundation has announced that it is building the infrastructure for a robot economy, focusing on four main pillars: robotic financing, agent payments, data flywheels, and a behavioral framework for robots. The goal is to improve the sustainability and safety of the robotics industry.

Gate News message: On April 7, the AI agent protocol Virtuals Protocol launched an embodied intelligence robotics accelerator, Eastworlds, aiming to help prototype robots in labs quickly move into real-world application scenarios. Eastworlds’ core functions include: building a community of robot engineers to jointly solve complex problems; providing ready-to-deploy robot hardware; and creating Embodied AI Data

The general-purpose robot network Orbion successfully deployed and went live on the BSC mainnet on March 31, with the goal of enabling end-to-end lifecycle management of general-purpose robots for users worldwide. The platform’s native token ORB has opened a 72-hour public subscription, serving as the core credential for governance, payments, and value transfer.