Facts

• Company: Tesla
• Product type: Humanoid Platform
• Status: development
• Capability focus: General Purpose Bipedal Humanoid Robot
• Website: https://www.tesla.com/AI

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Supply / Components
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Optimus is Tesla humanoid robot program for general-purpose physical work. The platform is being developed around bipedal mobility, dexterous hands, onboard perception and AI control for tasks in factories, logistics settings and eventually human-built environments.

Overview

Optimus is Tesla humanoid robot program for general-purpose physical work. The platform is being developed around bipedal mobility, dexterous hands, onboard perception and AI control for tasks in factories, logistics settings and eventually human-built environments.

Market context

Optimus is Tesla's general-purpose humanoid robot for repetitive, labor-intensive tasks across industrial and future domestic environments.

• Target environment: Tesla factories, structured industrial settings and future controlled environments where repetitive tasks can be automated.
• Workflow context: Factory task execution, material movement, manipulation, AI training, manufacturing integration and future home assistance.
• Customer context: Tesla internal operations, industrial partners and future customers evaluating humanoid labor automation.
• Deployment model: Development-stage humanoid program drawing on Tesla's AI, autonomy and manufacturing stack.
• Commercial maturity: Highly visible development program with internal factory-use focus and no broad external commercial rollout.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on manipulation, autonomy, safety, manufacturing cost, fleet support, reliability and task economics.
• Market position: Vertically integrated humanoid program with unusual access to automotive-scale AI, manufacturing and factory deployment infrastructure.
• Adjacent products: Figure 03, Apptronik Apollo, Agility Digit, Sanctuary Phoenix

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Factory task execution, material movement, manipulation, AI training, manufacturing integration and future home assistance.

Capability

general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot

Deployment environment

Tesla factories, structured industrial settings and future controlled environments where repetitive tasks can be automated.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Factory task execution, material movement, manipulation, AI training, manufacturing integration and future home assistance.
• Capability: general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot
• Deployment environment: Tesla factories, structured industrial settings and future controlled environments where repetitive tasks can be automated.

Specifications

• Weight Reduction Kg: 10 kg
• Walk Speed Boost Percent: 30 %
• Hand Dof: 11 DoF
• Neck Dof: 2 DoF
• Tactile Sensing: Tactile sensing on all fingers
• Force Torque Sensing: Foot force / torque sensing
• Actuation: Tesla-designed actuators and sensors

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform, Humanoid robot platform
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
• Capability: Whole-body control
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Record / Articles

• 2026-01-28 - Article - Tesla ends Model S and Model X production to convert Fremont factory for Optimus manufacturing

Timeline / Research

• 2026-06-22 - Market Signal - Mirle and Asia Optical named in Optimus 3 supply chain - Mirle has begun supplying harmonic reducers and joint modules for Optimus 3.
• 2026-03-12 - Market Signal - Tesla to start production on Optimus Version 3 this summer - • Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that production of Optimus Version 3 will commence in the summer of 2026.
• 2026-02-06 - Market Signal - Tesla establishes 'Optimus Academy' to train robots - • Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the creation of 'Optimus Academy' to train the company's Optimus humanoid robots.
• 2026-01-29 - Market Signal - Tesla shifts focus toward Optimus humanoid robot and AI as Model S/X importance declines - Tesla signalled reduced strategic focus on Model S and Model X amid broader shift toward AI and rob…
• 2026-01-02 - Production Milestone - Tesla Completes Mass Production Audit for Optimus v3 - Tesla has reportedly completed the mass production audit for Optimus v3.
• 2025-11-10 - Facility Opening - Tesla Begins Construction of Optimus Robot Factory at Giga Texas - Tesla has started building a dedicated facility at Gigafactory Texas for mass-producing its Optimus humanoid robots.
• 2025-06-06 - Org Change - Leadership change in Tesla's Optimus program - • Tesla's head of the Optimus humanoid robot program, Milan Kovac, announced his resignation on June 6, 2025, citing the need to spend more...
• 2025-04-22 - Deployment - Tesla Robotaxi pilot launch in Austin by June; Optimus pilot line in 2025 - Tesla outlined a Robotaxi pilot launch in Austin with timeline targets tied to mid-year deployment.
• 2025-01-31 - Market Signal - Tesla's Optimus robot production targets discussed - • Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced during the Q4 2024 earnings call that the company planned to build 10,000 Optimus robots in 2025.
• 2024-07-22 - Market Signal - Elon Musk announces Tesla's Optimus robot production plans - • Elon Musk stated that Tesla will have 'genuinely useful' humanoid robots in low production for internal use in 2025.
• 2024-05-01 - Demonstration - Tesla Optimus Factory Tasks Demonstration Video - Tesla shared factory-floor Optimus footage showing repetitive handling tasks in a real production environment.
• 2023-12-12 - Product Launch - Tesla unveils Optimus Gen 2 humanoid prototype with lighter body and improved hands - Tesla unveiled Optimus Gen 2 with faster walking, lighter weight, and improved hand dexterity in live d…
• 2023-09-24 - Product Launch - Tesla Optimus Update Video - Autonomous Object Sorting - Tesla's Optimus update video showed improved autonomous object sorting and smoother manipulation sequences.
• 2023-09-24 - Capability - Tesla Optimus shares core technology with Tesla vehicles. - Shares core technology across platforms, enhancing integration between vehicles and humanoid robots.
• 2022-09-30 - Demonstration - Tesla Optimus Prototype Demonstration at AI Day 2022 - Tesla presented an early Optimus prototype at AI Day 2022, demonstrating basic walking and staged task execution.

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Texas Optimus Ten Million Long Term Capacity - 10 million Optimus robots/year long-term target - 2026-04-22 - Gigafactory Texas - United States - Tesla showed Gigafactory Texas Optimus factory preparation and described…
• Fremont Optimus One Million Capacity - 1 million Optimus robots/year - 2026-01-28 - Fremont Factory - United States - Tesla said Optimus production was planned before the end of 2026 and described eventual planned capac…
• Optimus Zero Useful Factory Work - 0 Optimus units disclosed as doing useful factory work - 2026-01-28 - Tesla factories - factory learning and data collection - Asked about factory deployment, Musk said Optimus units w…
• Target 2025 Optimus Builds - roughly 10,000 Optimus robots targeted in 2025 - 2025-01-29 - United States - Musk told investors Tesla was aiming for roughly 10,000 Optimus robots built in 2025, while acknowledging the ex…
• Optimus Line Design 1000 Per Month - roughly 12,000 robots/year line design - 2025-01-29 - United States - Musk said the current Optimus production line being designed was for roughly 1,000 units per month, equivalent t…
• Optimus Next Line Design 10000 Per Month - roughly 120,000 robots/year next line design - 2025-01-29 - United States - Musk described the next Optimus line as being on the order of 10,000 units per month, equivalent to…

Supply / Components

• Tesla Optimus 3 - Harmonic Reducers And Joint Modules - Actuation - Mirle Automation - Direct supply claim for Mirle harmonic reducers and joint modules into Optimus 3 - source: money.udn.com
• Tesla Optimus 3 - Robot Vision Lenses - Perception - Asia Optical - Supply-chain participant claim for Asia Optical robot vision components; maturity is sample/pilot production rather than active volume supply - source:…

Comparable Systems

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• IRON - XPeng Inc. - Humanoid
• Vanar Generation-1 - Vanar Robots - Humanoid
• Kepler K2 - Kepler Robotics - Humanoid
• Apollo - Apptronik - Humanoid
• Atlas - Boston Dynamics - Humanoid
• Walker S1 - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Walker S - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform