President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs provoked Beijing into demonstrating one of its key points of leverage.

Tesla's humanoid robot, named "Optimus," continues to generate interest and curiosity around the world. Yesterday (Tuesday), Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, tweeted on the social network X (formerly ...

Tesla’s production of Optimus, a robot that promises to take over household chores, has been disrupted by China’s curbs on rare earth exports, introduced by Beijing earlier this month in an ...

Tesla had hoped to produce thousands of Optimus robots this year as part of Mr Musk’s plans to automate physical human labour across all industries. Mr Musk has previously said that Optimus will ...

Tesla (TSLA) has been warned that its plans to mass produce its Optimus humanoid robots and even send them to Mars have been scuppered by President Trump’s tariffs strategy. Optimus Plan ...

By Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) -Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday that the production of its Optimus humanoid robots had been affected by China's export restrictions of rare earth magnets. He said ...