Tesla Is Ready to Roll Out the Cybercab, Its Answer to Robotaxis

On Thursday evening, around 7 pm PDT, Tesla is slated to unveil the newest vehicle in its lineup: one that will be able to drive itself. A purpose-built Tesla robot taxi--a "Cybercab," in the electric automaker's parlance--is meant to establish the company as less a manufacturer of cars than a maker of pathbreaking robotics technology. "The way to think of Tesla is almost entirely in terms of solving autonomy and being able to turn on that autonomy for a gigantic fleet," CEO Elon Musk told Tesla investors in April. As Musk takes the stage tomorrow at the Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. movie studio in Burbank, California, and attempts to usher that substantial (and difficult!) The robot devil will likely be in the robot details.