Tesla
The carmaker advancing driver assistance and humanoids together
United States Robotics Closed
WHAT IT IS
Tesla was founded in 2003 and is an electric-vehicle and energy company. It advances its FSD driver-assistance system with a camera-only vision approach, and has shown prototypes of the Optimus humanoid robot since 2022.
Why it matters
It holds to a camera-only route, training driving systems on data from a large fleet, representing a technical choice different from the lidar-based approach.
Key milestones
- 2003
Founded
- 2020
Rolled out an FSD beta to some users
- 2022
Showed the Optimus humanoid prototype