A Cybercab ride is starting to feel like having a personal assistant along for the trip. Tesla has enabled personalized Grok Bots across its entire Robotaxi fleet, Cybercab included, so riders can hand off real tasks to their own AI agent mid-ride.
From voice assistant to agent
Grok has been in the Cybercab since the vehicle joined the Robotaxi fleet. Riders could talk to it by voice, through the touchscreen, or in the Robotaxi app. What’s new, as Drive Tesla Canada reports, is that passengers can now use their own Grok Bots, the personalized agents they’ve set up with their own tools and preferences, rather than the standard assistant.
The rollout was quick. A Tesla engineer flagged over the weekend that a fix was coming, and within hours it was live on every Cybercab and Model Y Robotaxi. Tesla engineer Yun-Ta Tsai confirmed it was enabled fleet-wide, according to Teslarati. Tesla’s official Robotaxi account showed it off with a rider’s clip of their Grok Bot ordering their usual drink during a Cybercab ride: “Talk directly to your Grok @bot in Robotaxi.”
What you can actually do
Teslarati put it plainly: Grok Bot “is an agent, not a voice assistant.” A rider signs in once and can then ask it to:
- order dinner from a favorite restaurant or fill a grocery cart,
- answer email or adjust a calendar,
- move money or push a work project forward.
So far Tesla hasn’t announced any limits on which Grok Bots can be used inside a Robotaxi.
Why this is a bigger deal than it sounds
A car with no steering wheel and no pedals solves the driving problem. It also hands every rider back their commute time. Uber and Lyft only moved the driving to someone else’s hands, and you still spent the ride half-listening to a stranger’s playlist. In a Cybercab, the cabin is yours. Add an agent that can actually get things done, and a 20-minute ride becomes 20 productive minutes.
That’s a real competitive advantage. Plenty of companies can, in theory, build a robotaxi. Very few also run a frontier AI model and a social platform alongside the car company. Grok comes from SpaceX’s AI division, which now includes xAI and X. The Cybercab is turning into the place where those businesses meet, and Teslarati argues the Grok integration may matter more than the fleet count everyone is tracking.
Also in development: camera views on demand
Another rider request from the same weekend is moving forward. Cybercab rider Dan Burkland asked on X for the ability to pull up the rear and repeater cameras “especially for peace of mind,” since the Cybercab has no side mirrors. Tesla UI engineer Evan (@CarCoder) answered in two words: “In development.” It’s a good example of the feedback loop Tesla runs in public, where a rider asks on Friday and an engineer replies the same night.
The EVX News take
The Cybercab’s first job was to drive itself. Its second is to give riders their time back. With personal Grok Bots now in every Robotaxi, Tesla is quietly making the ride itself part of the product. That gets more interesting with every new city the service reaches.
Sources: Drive Tesla Canada, Teslarati (Grok Bot), Teslarati (camera feeds), Not a Tesla App (camera feeds), Tesla Robotaxi on X.
— The EVX News team
Featured image: Inside the Tesla Cybercab, by Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY 2.0.
