{
  "slug": "tesla-optimus",
  "name": "Optimus",
  "manufacturer": {
    "name": "Tesla, Inc.",
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://www.tesla.com/AI"
  },
  "category": "full-size",
  "announced": {
    "date": "2021-08-19",
    "source": {
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)",
      "quote": "August 19, 2021, at Tesla's AI Day event",
      "accessed": "2026-09-20"
    }
  },
  "specs": {
    "height_cm": {
      "value": 173,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)",
        "quote": "Height: 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "weight_kg": {
      "value": 57,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)",
        "quote": "Weight: 125 lb (57 kg)",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "payload_kg": {
      "value": 20,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)",
        "quote": "Carrying capacity: 45 lb (20 kg)",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "hand_dof": {
      "value": 22,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-optimus-hands-22-degrees-of-freedom-upgrade-2024/",
        "quote": "The new Optimus hand later this year will have 22 DoF",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "independent",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The reviewed source did not establish both the exact recorded value and the concrete robot variant for this specification."
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "price_history": [
    {
      "date": "2026-04-22",
      "amount": 30000,
      "currency": "USD",
      "variant": "estimate, not yet for sale",
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)",
        "quote": "April 22, 2026 (Q1 Earnings Call): Musk estimated the robot would be \"available for purchase at around US$30,000.\"",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    }
  ],
  "delivery": {
    "status": "demonstrated",
    "timeline": [
      {
        "date": "2021-08-19",
        "event": "announced",
        "detail": "Tesla reveals plans for a humanoid robot (initially \"Tesla Bot\") at AI Day; presented by a person in a costume, not a functioning unit.",
        "quantity_min": null,
        "quantity_max": null,
        "source": {
          "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)",
          "quote": "August 19, 2021, at Tesla's AI Day event",
          "accessed": "2026-09-20"
        }
      },
      {
        "date": "2026-04-22",
        "event": "volume-estimate",
        "detail": "No customer deliveries confirmed; Tesla states production lines are being installed at Fremont with full-scale manufacturing targeted for 2027.",
        "quantity_min": null,
        "quantity_max": null,
        "source": {
          "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)",
          "quote": "April 2026: Production lines being installed in Fremont; full-scale manufacturing targeted for 2027",
          "accessed": "2026-09-20"
        }
      },
      {
        "date": "2026-10-22",
        "event": "volume-estimate",
        "detail": "Tesla's Q3 2026 shareholder letter says Optimus now comes off the high-volume Fremont line and calls these the first production-quality bots; no external customer delivery is evidenced.",
        "quantity_min": null,
        "quantity_max": null,
        "source": {
          "url": "https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-optimus-hands-22-degrees-of-freedom-upgrade-2024/",
          "quote": "“The bots coming off this line are the first production-quality bots that we have manufactured,” Tesla wrote in its third quarter shareholder letter",
          "accessed": "2026-10-24",
          "published": "2026-10-23",
          "media_type": "article",
          "publisher_type": "independent"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "promises": [
    {
      "id": "tesla-optimus-v1-production-2023",
      "claim": "Optimus version 1 in production",
      "target": "2023",
      "made_on": "2022-04-08",
      "quote": "We have a shot of being in production for version one of Optimus hopefully next year",
      "source_url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/08/elon-musk-says-tesla-is-aiming-to-start-production-on-optimus-next-year.html",
      "source_name": "CNBC",
      "accessed": "2026-09-27",
      "status": "missed",
      "revised_to": "tesla-optimus-low-production-2025"
    },
    {
      "id": "tesla-optimus-low-production-2025",
      "claim": "Low production of Optimus for Tesla internal use",
      "target": "2025",
      "made_on": "2024-07-23",
      "quote": "Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year",
      "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/elon-musk-sets-2026-optimus-sale-date-heres-where-other-humanoid-robots-stand/",
      "source_name": "TechCrunch",
      "accessed": "2026-09-27",
      "status": "open"
    },
    {
      "id": "tesla-optimus-high-production-2026",
      "claim": "High production of Optimus for other companies",
      "target": "2026",
      "made_on": "2024-07-23",
      "quote": "hopefully, high production for other companies in 2026",
      "source_url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/23/elon-musk-sets-2026-optimus-sale-date-heres-where-other-humanoid-robots-stand/",
      "source_name": "TechCrunch",
      "accessed": "2026-09-27",
      "status": "open"
    },
    {
      "id": "tesla-optimus-significant-numbers-2027",
      "claim": "Optimus ramp to significant production numbers",
      "target": "2027",
      "made_on": "2026-04-22",
      "quote": "we're preparing Fremont for start of production later this year...we'll ramp up to significant numbers next year",
      "source_url": "https://evwire.com/p/tesla-tsla-q1-2026-earnings-call-full-transcript",
      "source_name": "Tesla Q1 2026 earnings call transcript",
      "accessed": "2026-09-27",
      "status": "open"
    }
  ],
  "order_type": {
    "value": "none",
    "status": "claimed",
    "source": {
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_(robot)",
      "quote": "he estimated that the robot would be available for purchase at around US$30,000",
      "accessed": "2026-09-21"
    }
  },
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "id": "teleoperation-shown",
      "status": "demonstrated",
      "autonomy": "teleoperated",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://fortune.com/2024/10/13/elon-musk-tesla-optimus-robot-tele-operated-robotaxi",
        "quote": "Today I'm assisted by a human. I'm not yet fully autonomous",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "independent",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The text source was reviewed, but no video segment was watched; the existing capability status and autonomy classification for the exact recorded robot variant were not fully verified."
        }
      },
      "note": "At Tesla's 'We, Robot' event (2024-10-10), one of the Optimus units present told a guest it was human-assisted; independently observed and reported by multiple attendees/press (Fortune, Bloomberg, Cybernews), not a Tesla press claim."
    },
    {
      "id": "pick-and-place",
      "status": "demonstrated",
      "autonomy": "unknown",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://fortune.com/2024/10/13/elon-musk-tesla-optimus-robot-tele-operated-robotaxi",
        "quote": "Totally worthy to celebrate low latency remote control, but totally dishonest to demo these as autonomous robots—call it the parlor trick it is.",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "independent",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The text source was reviewed, but no video segment was watched; the existing capability status and autonomy classification for the exact recorded robot variant were not fully verified."
        }
      },
      "note": "Optimus units poured drinks and interacted with guests at the We, Robot event; Lux Capital cofounder Josh Wolfe's remark confirms remote control was used for at least some units, but Tesla has not disclosed which specific actions were teleoperated vs. scripted/autonomous, so this pick-and-place-style interaction is recorded as unknown rather than autonomous or teleoperated by default."
    }
  ],
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "photo",
      "file": "media/tesla-optimus/optimus-exhibition.jpg",
      "caption": "Optimus robot on display at a public exhibition.",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Optimus_Tesla.jpg",
        "accessed": "2026-09-21"
      },
      "license": {
        "name": "other",
        "terms_url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
        "note": "CC0 (public domain dedication) by photographer Benjamin Ceci, 2023-09-06, via Wikimedia Commons; not one of the fixed manufacturer/patent license names, recorded as \"other\" with the CC0 deed linked."
      },
      "credit": "Photo: Benjamin Ceci, CC0"
    },
    {
      "type": "patent",
      "file": "media/tesla-optimus/optimus-hand-patent-wo2024073138.png",
      "caption": "Front view of Tesla's underactuated cable-driven robot hand, FIG. 2 from WO 2024/073138 A1.",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2024073138A1/en",
        "accessed": "2026-09-21"
      },
      "license": {
        "name": "other",
        "terms_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2024073138A1/en",
        "note": "Public patent record (WIPO/PCT publication, Tesla, Inc. applicant); patent drawings are not copyrighted the way a product photo is. Sheet 2/23 (FIG. 2, front view of robot hand) rotated upright from the official PDF."
      },
      "patent_number": "WO2024073138A1",
      "credit": "Tesla, Inc. (patent drawing)"
    }
  ],
  "notes": [
    "No unit has been sold or delivered to an external customer as of 2026-09-20; Tesla's own working demos (walking, sorting, dancing) qualify as demonstrated, not shipped.",
    "Primary sourcing gap: tesla.com/AI returned HTTP 403 and Tesla's investor-relations PDFs were not reachable directly during this build; the figures above are Tesla's own stated numbers as compiled by Wikipedia with named dates and events (AI Day 2021, Q1 2026 earnings call), not independent journalism repeating a rumor. This should be replaced with a direct tesla.com or ir.tesla.com citation in a follow-up.",
    "hand_dof (22 DoF) is Elon Musk's own statement (May 2024, as reported by Teslarati) about an upcoming hand upgrade, recorded as claimed; by 2026 multiple outlets describe this as the current Gen 3/V3 hand shipping in low volume, but no direct tesla.com spec page confirming the current production hand DOF was reachable during this build.",
    "The teleoperation-shown capability documents the well-publicized fact that at least some We, Robot (Oct 2024) Optimus units were human-operated; this does not establish the current DOF or autonomy of any other demonstrated Optimus capability, which remain separately unsourced for autonomy.",
    "order_type is recorded as 'none' as of 2026-09-21: Musk's $30,000 figure (Q1 2026 earnings call) is a future price estimate, not a current cart/waitlist/preorder offer, and no tesla.com storefront or order page for Optimus was located.",
    "actuator_torque_nm, battery_wh, battery_swappable, charge_time_min, sdk, and warranty were left out of this update (2026-09-21): tesla.com/AI and Tesla's investor pages remained unreachable (HTTP 403), and secondary blogs repeating 2022 AI Day actuator numbers (20/110/180 Nm rotary reducers) could not be traced to a literal, directly quotable Tesla or Wikipedia passage during this pass.",
    "locomotion left out (2026-09-21): searched the manufacturer's own product/press page and its main launch coverage (The Robot Report / IEEE Spectrum / named outlet where applicable) for a literal quote naming the propulsion (\"bipedal\", \"legs\", \"walks\", \"wheeled base\", etc.); none of the pages fetched in this pass contained a checkable sentence naming it specifically for Optimus -- most pages describe height/DOF/speed without ever stating the locomotion type in words. Left out rather than inferred from photos or category. Revisit with a source that states it directly.",
    "Q3 2026 (accessed 2026-10-24): connect.ro (23 Oct 2026) paraphrases Musk on the Q3 call as saying external customer deliveries would start toward the end of 2027 ('Tesla va începe livrarea roboților umanoizi Optimus către clienți externi spre sfârșitul anului 2027'). This is a secondary paraphrase without a direct Musk quote, so no promise or delivery event was recorded; trace it to the call transcript before adding. Teslarati (2026-10-23) quotes Tesla's Q3 letter on production-quality bots; no customer delivery is evidenced."
  ],
  "updated": "2026-10-24",
  "simulation": {
    "review": {
      "status": "not_confirmed",
      "checked": "2026-09-27",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.tesla.com/AI"
      ],
      "reason": "Targeted searches found no confirmed model for this record; does not mean unavailable."
    },
    "artifacts": []
  },
  "actuator_architecture": {
    "review": {
      "status": "not_confirmed",
      "checked": "2026-09-27",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.tesla.com/AI"
      ],
      "reason": "Targeted actuator searches did not confirm an exact-variant architecture claim for this record; this does not mean none exists."
    },
    "groups": []
  },
  "url": "https://humanoidrecord.com/robots/tesla-optimus/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "humanoidrecord.com",
  "generated_at": "2026-11-03T10:59:20.283Z"
}