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Two adults and two teenage boys have been found dead in a suspected murder-suicide at a home in Perth's west.

Police were called to the house at Mosman Park about 8.15am (AWST) after a person known to the family became concerned for their welfare.

Inside officers discovered the bodies of four people, including a 50-year-old male, a 49-year-old female and two boys aged 14 and 16. Two dogs and a cat were also found deceased.

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Police said the four were part of a family unit, and they were aware that the children had experienced "significant health challenges".

"Although this investigation is in its infancy, police are investigating this matter as a murder-suicide," WA Police detective acting inspector Jessica Securo said.

"This tragic incident occurred only this morning and it will take time for police to investigate the circumstances.

Securo said no weapon was during the incident and the family had no reported family violence matters and were not known to police at all.

She said a note was left at the premises.

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"We do know that both children experienced significant health challenges," she said.

"This is a highly distressing situation for all involved, from community members to the person who located the family to our first responders.

"WA police force has engaged our health and welfare and support services for all our front-line staff who attended this incident.

"If this incident has adversely affected or impacted you, I urge you to speak to your loved ones and get some help and assistance."

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Victims include tourists, school friends, a tutor and a 10-year-old boy.

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Seven men are facing serious drug and firearm charges following their alleged involvement in a criminal syndicate supplying drugs throughout Sydney.

Following extensive investigations into the syndicate, detectives executed a search warrant at a Granville home on January 20, earlier this month.

An additional eight homes in Hurstville, Riverwood, Revesby, and Beverly Hills were searched yesterday.

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During the searches, police found and seized over 28kg of prohibited drugs, three firearms, more than $1 million in cash and a large quantity of steroids.

A ballistic vest and more than 800 rounds of ammunition were also located and seized.

The combined street value of the drugs seized totalled $3 million, including 24.9kg of methylamphetamines and 2.9kg of heroin confiscated by police.

At Granville, a 26-year-old man was arrested and taken to Granville Police Station, where he was charged with fifteen offences, including supplying prohibited drugs in a large commercial quantity and three counts of possession of an authorised pistol.

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He was refused bail and was remanded to appear before Parramatta Court on March 23.

During yesterday's searches, five men, aged 30, 31, 32, 33 and 65, were arrested and taken to Hurstville Police Station, where they were charged with multiple offences.

The men were charged with large commercial drug supply, dealing with proceeds of crime and participating in a criminal group.

They were all refused bail and will face Sutherland Court today.

A sixth man, aged 68, was charged with supplying an indictable quantity of drugs and dealing with proceeds of crime.

He was granted conditional bail to appear before the Sutherland Court on March 17.

Investigations are still ongoing.

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Tesla dominated the electric vehicle industry by the mid-2010s with sleek, fast cars that helped combat the public perception that EVs were severely limited by short ranges.

Now the company, and its controversial Chief Executive, Elon Musk, face stiffer competition and political headwinds.

Its EV sales fell by a record 9 per cent in 2025, amid increasing rivalry from China and the expiration of the US EV sales tax credit.

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But Musk has been steering the company toward an audacious bet.

He believes Tesla's future won't ride on cars but on humanoid robots.

On Tesla's earnings call on Wednesday, Musk laid out a literal replacement of Tesla cars by robots – announcing Tesla would discontinue the Model S and Model X in favour of making more of its Optimus robots.

"We're gonna take the Model S and X production space in our Fremont factory and convert that into an Optimus factory, with the long-term goal of having one million units a year of Optimus robots in the current SX space in Fremont," he said.

It is the quintessential science-fiction dream of the future: Musk says Tesla's Optimus robots will do everything from cleaning your house to performing surgery.

He's called Optimus, the key to eliminating world poverty, making human work optional and reaching Mars.

And he claims they'll be on sale by the end of 2027.

"Every human on earth is going to have their own personal R2-D2, C3PO," Musk said in November, referring to the personal robots from Star Wars.

"But actually, Optimus will be better than that."

But critics say these are fever-dream distractions from Tesla's core automotive business.

And plenty of companies, like Boston Dynamics and Figure, are already deep into the humanoid robot business.

Musk's own success and pay are directly at stake.

Tesla must deliver one million Optimus robots within 10 years for Musk to fully realise an almost $US1 trillion ($1.4 trillion) Tesla pay plan approved by shareholders late last year.

"Elon is a big thinker, and he wants to be pushing the edge of people's imagination," a former Tesla senior engineer told CNN in an interview.

But the EV and robot markets are very different, the engineer said.

"With electric vehicles, Tesla was really the only one working on this hard problem. There's a lot of companies now and tons of competition."

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'Infinite money glitch'

Tesla first unveiled its humanoid robot project at a 2021 event, where a silvery figure danced to thumping techno music on a stage.

It was an actor in a robot suit, complete with a face that looked like a screen. "Obviously, that's not real," Musk said as the costumed figure left the stage.

Just months later, in January 2022, Musk said he thought Optimus could be "more significant than the vehicle business" for Tesla over time.

Tesla says Optimus can now sort objects, serve popcorn, throw out trash and dance.

It does "some basic tasks in the factory," Musk said Wednesday, progress, but still a far cry from Musk's futuristic vision, even as he predicted Optimus could eventually generate $US10 trillion ($14 trillion) of revenue.

Yet Musk has set a speedy timeline for Optimus.

At the World Economic Forum this month, he said the robot will be available for sale by the end of 2027.

It is a lofty goal, one experts say may be tougher than Musk's bets on electric vehicles or SpaceX.

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Humanoid robots are among the most complex machines imaginable, and the race to build them is already heating up.

Tesla is not the only company in this space.

Hyundai and Google DeepMind are also deploying their Atlas humanoid robot internally in the coming months before rolling it out to customers.

Meanwhile, the CES tech show in January was full of companies, including Nvidia, Qualcomm and Intel, showing off humanoid robots powered by their chips and technologies.

More than 90 companies have a humanoid robot product, according to Ani Kelkar, a partner at McKinsey & Company who leads the firm's advanced automation and autonomy sector. More are coming, especially in the United States and China.

Experts from McKinsey, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley estimate the humanoid robot market could eventually be worth anywhere from $US370 billion ($524 billion) by 2040 to $US5 trillion ($7 trillion) by 2050.

Tesla does have critical advantages in its expertise in motors, batteries and mechanisms, said Ken Goldberg, a professor who supervises research in robotics and automation at the University of California, Berkeley.

"They also understand how to make something advanced in high volume – with cost effectiveness, and that's really important," Goldberg said.

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The company could also benefit from using Optimus internally and selling it externally, giving it a "cost advantage" that could enable Tesla to make "several thousand dollars per robot," Goldman Sachs said in an October report.

But most experts agree it'll be at least a decade before humanoid robots are widely deployed.

"A giant leap may happen, but we don't know when," Goldberg said.

"Most technology develops as a slow burn over time, so I think the expectations about having fully general humanoids seems over-inflated."

Others are sceptical about whether humanoid robots will ever be broadly useful in society.

Bill Ray, an analyst following emerging technologies and robotics for market research firm Gartner, previously told CNN that humanoid robots face too many limitations to be practical.

Optimus challenges

Musk has swung big with timelines before – and missed. He previously said Tesla cars would be fully autonomous by 2018, and that SpaceX would start sending rockets to Mars by 2018 – neither of which has happened yet.

And already with Optimus, Tesla has missed its leader's ambitious schedule. Musk had initially set internal goals for Tesla to produce at least 5000 Optimus units in 2025, according to The Information.

That goal was slashed to 2000 a few months later and has been lowered again since, The Information reported in October.

Tesla did not respond to CNN's request for comment.

Musk has acknowledged that his goals are not easy.

"Right now, we're struggling with the final design of the hardware," especially of the arm and hand, Musk said at the All In Summit in September.

"Human-like hands are notoriously hard for robots to emulate. Unlike people, robots have a hard time knowing how to grip different objects like a wet glass versus a piece of metal.

"People think of space travel as extraordinarily difficult, and it is, no doubt, but it turns out that getting a robot to reliably tie a sneaker is harder than getting a rocket out of the atmosphere," Goldberg said.

Musk's political commentary and support of US President Donald Trump have also made him a polarising figure, resulting in protests and vandalism at Tesla dealerships across the country.

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"If they won't buy his cars, why would they buy a huge robot for their home from him?" posted Ross Gerber, an early Tesla investor and CEO of investment firm Gerber Kawasaki, who is now a prominent critic of Musk.

Musk acknowledged the "many who doubt our ambitions for creating amazing abundance" on Wednesday's earnings call.

"But we're confident it can be done, and that we're making the right moves technologically to ensure that it does."
"And Tesla's obviously never been a company to shy away from solving some of the hardest problems," he added.

But Musk's version of the future won't happen instantly – and maybe not for a long time.

"Elon is a visionary, but he promises things that sometimes may take more time than his engineers can deliver," said Goldberg.

"The research community all over the world is working very hard on this, but it's not going to get solved overnight."

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President Donald Trump today threatened Canada with a 50 per cent tariff on any aircraft sold in the US, the latest salvo in his trade war with America’s northern neighbour as his feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney expands.

Trump’s threat posted on social media came after he threatened over the weekend to impose a 100 per cent tariff on goods imported from Canada if it went forward with a planned trade deal with China.

But Trump’s threat did not come with any details about when he would impose the import taxes, as Canada had already struck a deal.

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In Trump’s latest threat, the Republican president said he was retaliating against Canada for refusing to certify jets from Savannah, Georgia-based Gulfstream Aerospace.

Trump said the US, in return, would decertify all Canadian aircraft, including planes from its largest aircraft maker, Bombardier.

“If, for any reason, this situation is not immediately corrected, I am going to charge Canada a 50 per cent Tariff on any and all Aircraft sold into the United States of America,” Trump said in his post.

Spokespeople for Bombardier and Canada’s transport minister didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment today.

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