Elon Musk threw light on the launch of Tesla’s Robovan. On November 27, the X page of Tesla Owners Silicon Valley shared a video of the electric vehicle. In the video, the audience seemed excited to see the car.As per reports, the Robovan has a capacity of 20 passengers. Elon Musk reshared the video on X and wrote:“It’s coming.”Netizens shared GIFs and memes at the announcement. Someone compared the design to a whiteboard eraser. They commented:“The robovan reminds me of the whiteboard markers my teachers used to use class.”Sharing an image, one X user compared the vehicle to a combination of Iron Man Mark 42 and a bread toaster.Another user mentioned that speed breakers on the road would be the “worst enemy” of Robovan. They shared:“this future car worst enemy.”A netizen joked that robots might come out of the vehicles. They wrote:“Except these guys are gonna jump out.”Others looked forward to buying the vehicle. One X user shared:“Once you make one of those with fully autonomous driving, and a bed in the back, it will be the only vehicle I ever purchase for the rest of my life.”Another online commentator mentioned:“Apparently the future should look like an 80s scifi movie and I couldn't be happier about that.”Looking back at what Elon Musk said at the Tesla Robovan preview held last yearThe news of the Tesla Robovan came out in 2024. According to a report by TechCrunch, the vehicle is almost like a bus. It is designed in a way that it seamlessly transports people to places with high density. Besides people, it can also transport goods. At the time, Elon Musk shared a statement, saying:“We’re going to make this, and it’s going to look like that.”He also said:“One of the things we want to do – and we’ve done this with the Cybertruck – is we want to change the look of the roads. The future should look like the future.”According to CNBC, the Robovan will be capable of going up to a station to charge itself without any plugging. In April 2024, Elon Musk said that if someone didn’t believe Tesla would succeed in making self-driving cars, then they shouldn’t invest in the company. He added that Tesla was already working on it and moving forward. In May 2025, Elon Musk sat down with David Faber from CNBC to discuss the futuristic demand for robots. He said:“I think humanoid robots will be the biggest product ever. The demand will be insatiable. Everyone's going to want one. It's like basically who wouldn't want their own personal C3PO R2-D2.”David asked how much training robots would need to learn different tasks. Elon Musk explained that it would require a lot of computer power and time. He said that if their robot could one day watch videos and learn from them the same way a human does, then it would be able to learn new tasks fast and handle many different jobs.