Optimus
Tesla's general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot
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Tesla Optimus — General-Purpose Humanoid Optimus is Tesla’s human-scale humanoid designed for real facilities and eventual home use. The latest Gen-2 iteration pairs improved agility with Tesla’s vision-first AI stack for navigation, perception, and task learning.
Released: 2022
RoboZaps evaluation note
Buyer-side view of Optimus
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- Availability
- announced
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- Verify local training, maintenance, parts, and uptime terms.
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Overview
Optimus is built to operate in spaces made for people—aisles, benches, and work cells—handling repetitive, ergonomically taxing jobs. A vision-centric AI stack recognizes objects, plans grasps, and adapts to new tasks, while a lightweight 56-kg chassis targets safe, compliant interaction. Tesla has demoed factory part sorting, lifting, and other everyday tasks, framing Optimus as a platform that learns skills over time and scales from in-house pilots to broader deployments.
Key Features
- Obstacle avoidance
- Standing up after a fall
- Running 100 m
- Walking up and down stairs
- Jumping and controlled landing
- Logistics sorting
- Assembly assistance
- Loading/unloading a dishwasher
- Folding garments
- Threading a needle
- Height: 173 cm
- Weight: 56 kg
- Top Speed: 8 km/h
- Walking Speed: ~2.5 km/h
- Payload / Strength: ~20 kg
- Runtime per Charge: ~1 hour
- Overall Degrees of Freedom: 22
- Hand Degrees of Freedom: N/A (see note)
- Safe with Humans: N/A
- Sensors: Cameras, depth sensing; force sensors in hands (described)
- AI/Control: Tesla vision stack and neural networks derived from FSD
- OS / Connectivity / IP / Latency / CPU-GPU: Not disclosed
- LLM Integration: N/A
- Primary (near term): Manufacturing & logistics pilots
- Future: Household assistance, general service
- H.G. Skill Score (official listing): 6 (table)
- Verification: Not verified
Technical Specifications
Total: 4/10 — Navigation 2/5 + Manipulation 2/5
• Motors / Gearing / Materials: Not disclosed
• Fingers: N/A in spec; hands described as highly dexterous
Videos
Deployment Evidence
Tesla Optimus — Official Page
Tesla Optimus (Gen 2/3) is in development for internal Tesla factory use; Elon Musk targets $20-30k consumer price with broad availability starting ~2027, pending regulatory approval.
Deployment Readiness
Integration & SDK
- ROS Support
- Not confirmed
- SDK Available
- Not confirmed
- API Docs
- —
- Supported Platforms
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Support & Service
Regions
—Support details not available
Specifications
Mechanics
| Degrees of Freedom | 28 |
| Locomotion | Bipedal |
Performance
| Max Speed | 2.2 m/s |
| Payload Capacity | 20 kg |
Physical
| Weight | 73 kg |
| Height | 1730 mm |
Sensing
| Sensors | Cameras, force/torque sensors |
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