Tesla · general-purpose humanoid
Optimus
AI Day 2022 prototype
The first Tesla-designed Optimus body, with a 2.3 kWh battery pack and 11-DoF hands; it could not yet walk and was carried on stage. Weight figures differ between sources, so none is given.
- Price
- —No list price. Elon Musk gave about $20,000 as a long-run target at high volume.
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A retired humanoid from Tesla.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current humanoids.
- 20,048 views of its Wikipedia article in the last 90 days (Optimus (robot))
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs
- Chip
- FSD Chip (Hardware 3) (Tesla)Tesla said the torso holds the same self-driving SoC used in its cars (the FSD chip family).
- Actuators & motors
- 28 Tesla-designed structural actuators of six types (42HOW reports three rotary and three linear), each with position and torque sensing; knee uses a four-bar linkage.
- Hands
- 11 DoF per hand driven by six actuators, adaptive grip, self-locking worm-gear finger joints; can lift about 20 lb (9 kg).
- Sensors & vision
- Vision-only perception from head cameras using Autopilot-derived networks.
- Compute
- Same Tesla SoC (self-driving computer) as Tesla cars, in the torso; Wi-Fi and LTE.
- Battery & power
- 2.3 kWh pack in the torso, 52 V nominal (42HOW) with car-type cylindrical cells and integrated management electronics; Tesla said about a day of work.
- AI & software
- FSD neural networks retrained for indoor use, a simulator for training, footstep planning and balance control, and hand skills from motion capture.
- Other details
- Engineering.com reports about 100 W idle, 500 W brisk walking and roughly 161 lb. Could not yet walk and was carried on stage. Musk targeted a price under US$20,000.
Lineage
Every Tesla humanoid in order.
- No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useBumble C (Optimus development platform)2022Retired
- Optimus (AI Day 2022 prototype)2022Retired
Optimus (Gen 1)2023Retired
Optimus Gen 22023Prototype
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not publishedNo list price. Elon Musk gave about $20,000 as a long-run target at high volume.
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Built
- prototype
- Sold or delivered
- never sold
- Where it is sold or used
- United States
News
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- Optimus prototype at AI Day 2022
Tesla presented its in-house Optimus prototype, carried on stage, with a 2.3 kWh pack.
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Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | Optimus (AI Day 2022 prototype)Tesla |  Figure 01Figure AISame job: industrial · Both walk · Both past robots |  Figure 02Figure AISame job: industrial · Both walk · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2022-09-30 | 2023-03 | 2024-08-06 |
| Status | Retired | Retired | Retired |
| Height | — | 168 cm | 168 cm |
| Weight | — | 60 kg | 70 kg |
| Joints | — | — | — |
| Speed | — | 4.3 km/h | 4.3 km/h |
| Payload | — | 20 kg | 20 kg |
| Battery | — | 5 h | 5 h |
| Price | — | — | — |
Sources
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