Tesla has a consistent pattern of generating more coverage per milestone than any robotics competitor — and Optimus inherits that pattern without the engineering record to sustain it. The attention dominance is real: Optimus consumed an outsized share of AI-robotics conversation on the day this story was filed, a level unusual even for Tesla. But the production gap is equally real. Musk's own January 2026 admission placed Optimus units firmly in R&D rather than useful deployment, the 2025 goal of 1,000 working units having passed without a credible update. The…