Tesla's China president announced that the Shanghai Gigafactory holds the potential for mass-producing humanoid robots. This capability could accelerate Elon Musk's goals of commercializing advanced robotics technology.

Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory, its largest production base, has the potential to build humanoid robots in future, the company’s China president says, with its manufacturing efficiency and innovative capability seen as potential drivers of CEO Elon Musk’s hopes of commercialising the technology swiftly. Allan Wang Hao said in a media briefing on Tuesday that the Shanghai Gigafactory could provide a “golden key” to the mass production of robots designed to resemble and move like humans. “Like other...