Tesla Receives Texas Approval for Cleaning Robots

When Tesla unveiled the Cybercab and the Robovan at the We, Robot event in 2024, a short video was also shown featuring a cleaning robot that was autonomously vacuuming the Cybercab and wiping down the central touchscreen. A few weeks later, Tesla released a longer video “narrated” by the cleaning robot, which described its activities in a cheeky manner.

Now Tesla is getting serious about this, as the company has received approval in Texas to operate such a robot. This robot will be stationed at Tesla’s robotaxi hub on E Ben White Blvd in Austin, where the Cybercabs are charged, maintained, and cleaned. This brings the hub one step closer to fully automated operations.

This article was also published in German.