AUSTIN, Texas — Elon Musk offered a rare look at two of Tesla's most anticipated products this week, posting a new concept video of the planned Terafab campus that features Optimus humanoid robots and the long-quiet Robovan gliding through a futuristic Texas facility.
Musk shared the clip on X on Thursday morning, and the standout details were not the building itself but the vehicles and robots moving around it. The render, credited to SpaceX, shows Optimus units working the grounds of the roughly 2.5-mile-long site planned for Gibbons Creek in Grimes County, while a Robovan slides along an elevated roadway cutting through the structure, sharing the frame with a Tesla Semi and a Cybercab. The footage arrives as Terafab's $16.8 billion first phase moves from concept toward construction.
A Rare Robovan Sighting
Robovan is the boxy, driverless people-and-cargo mover Musk unveiled alongside Cybercab at Tesla's We, Robot event in October 2024. He pitched it as a way to move up to 20 passengers at once, or haul freight instead, at a target cost he said could fall under a dollar a mile, with no steering wheel or pedals. Nearly two years later, the vehicle still has no confirmed production timeline, which makes Thursday's render one of the only recent looks at it in any form — and a signal that the concept remains firmly on Tesla's roadmap.
Optimus Moves Ahead
Optimus has advanced further. Tesla began converting Fremont's former Model S and Model X assembly line into a Gen 3 Optimus production line earlier this year, and Musk visited the site on July 1 to mark the changeover. A second, larger Optimus plant is under construction at Gigafactory Texas, targeting volume production in 2027 and an eventual capacity Tesla has pegged at 10 million units a year.
