Elon Musk: Robot software will make Tesla worth as much as Apple Market Watch

In three different facilities spread across America, Tesla's TSLA, -4.93% robot-manufacturing prowess is about to show its worth. If Musk -- who, to his credit, is building rockets that can land already -- can accomplish his accelerated ambitions for automated manufacturing, Tesla would at least own a piece of the pipeline over Apple AAPL, -0.47%.