Shares of carmaker and robotics company Tesla rallied on Musk's comments Thursday about the timeline for the public sale of Optimus robots.

SpaceX owner and founder, Elon Musk, has declared he’s not human – but in fact, he’s an alien.

He said Tesla aims to get “Supervised Full Self-Driving approval in Europe, hopefully next month, and then maybe a similar timing [...] for China,” a line that helped push Tesla shares up more than 3%...