The Fremont factory will still manufacture Model 3 and Y, but the space where Model S and X are made will instead focus on mass production of Tesla's Gen 3 Optimus robots.

Robots are quietly lining up for factory jobs and humans may soon be outnumbered or replaced entirely

It will come in time, but it's going to take a lot of it for humanoid robotics to really eat into human workforces if the economies of scale don't line up. In a world increasingly divided into trade-protected zones, that may become ever more difficult in the years to come.

Tesla’s annual profit plunged to its lowest level since the pandemic five years ago as it lost the title of the world’s biggest electric vehicle maker to a Chinese rival and boycotts hammered sales. The EV company run by Elon Musk reported Wednesday that net income last year dropped 46% to $3.