Product profile
Optimus
Optimus is Tesla humanoid robot program for general-purpose physical work. The platform is being developed around bipedal mobility, dexterous hands, onboar...
Facts
- Company
- Tesla
- Product type
- humanoid_platform
- Status
- development
- Primary capability
- general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot
- Website
- https://www.tesla.com/AI
About Optimus
Optimus is Tesla's bipedal humanoid programme for general-purpose physical work. The platform combines articulated hands, onboard vision and AI control with a human-scale body intended to perform material handling and repetitive tasks in Tesla factories.
Tesla continues to develop successive prototypes and training systems around the programme. Demonstrations establish specific learned tasks, while production scale, external orderability and general task autonomy remain separate milestones.
Market context
industrial, Specs rebuilt 2026-06-05 from Tesla Optimus Gen 2 official X video; older 2021 AI Day target rows removed., enterprise_system, humanoid
Summary
Type: Humanoid
Core: Factory tasks
Function: Handle objects
Audience: Manufacturers
Specifications
- actuation
- Tesla-designed actuators and sensors
- force_torque_sensing
- Foot force / torque sensing
- hand_dof
- 11 DoF
- neck_dof
- 2 DoF
- tactile_sensing
- Tactile sensing on all fingers
- walk_speed_boost_percent
- 30 %
- weight_reduction_kg
- 10 kg
Operations
- Environment
- factory, industrial, future domestic
- Primary user
- Tesla internal operations, future enterprise users
- Role
- general_purpose_humanoid
- Interaction model
- supervised_autonomy, physical_world_task_execution
- Mobility class
- biped
- Product detail
- industrial, Specs rebuilt 2026-06-05 from Tesla Optimus Gen 2 official X video; older 2021 AI Day target rows removed., enterprise_system, humanoid
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Tesla begins building the Fremont Optimus production facility — 2026-07-22
- Mirle and Asia Optical named in Optimus 3 supply chain — 2026-06-22
- Tesla to start production on Optimus Version 3 this summer — 2026-03-12
- Tesla establishes 'Optimus Academy' to train robots — 2026-02-06
- Tesla shifts focus toward Optimus humanoid robot and AI as Model S/X importance declines — 2026-01-29
- Tesla Begins Construction of Optimus Robot Factory at Giga Texas — 2025-11-10
- Tesla develops World Simulator Model to enhance robotics evaluation challenges — 2025-10-24
- Leadership change in Tesla's Optimus program — 2025-06-06