Tesla, Inc. Optimus
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Reference photo · Photo: Benjamin Ceci, CC0 · not evidence
Height to scale. Width is schematic, derived from weight; not a measured body width.
Specs
| Field | Value | Status | Quote | Accessed | Archive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Height (cm) | 1732 | claimed | “Height: 5 ft 8 in (173 cm)”Not reviewedThe cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim. |
2026-09-20 | — |
| Weight (kg) | 573 | claimed | “Weight: 125 lb (57 kg)”Not reviewedThe cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim. |
2026-09-20 | — |
| Payload (kg) | 201 | claimed | “Carrying capacity: 45 lb (20 kg)”Not reviewedThe cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim. |
2026-09-20 | — |
| Hand degrees of freedom | 224 | claimed | “The new Optimus hand later this year will have 22 DoF”Needs reviewThe reviewed source does not provide enough evidence for this specific claim.
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2026-09-27 | — |
Power, software and buying
| Field | Status | Value | Quote | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuator torque (Nm) | — | — | — | |
| Battery (Wh) | — | — | — | |
| Battery swappable | — | — | — | |
| Charge time (min) | — | — | — | |
| Locomotion | — | — | — | |
| SDK | — | — | — | |
| Warranty | — | — | — | |
| Order type | not for sale9 | “he estimated that the robot would be available for purchase at around US$30,000”Not reviewedThe cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim. |
2026-09-21 | |
Safety and control
Not yet reviewed means Humanoidrecord has not reviewed or found documentation for this field. It does not show that a feature is absent, certify protection, or establish how the robot behaves in every setting.
| Field | Review status | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency stop | Not yet reviewed | No source reviewed |
| Motion limits | Not yet reviewed | No source reviewed |
| Operator logging | Not yet reviewed | No source reviewed |
Reported control modes
These modes apply only to the sourced capabilities listed here, not to the robot as a whole.
- Teleoperation shown: reported teleoperated6
See the incident register for separately sourced public reports. This link does not connect this robot or model to an incident.
Simulation
No simulation artifact confirmed in targeted search
This records a searched-but-not-confirmed result. It does not mean simulation support is unavailable.
- Search checked
- 2026-09-27
- Search result
- Targeted searches found no confirmed model for this record; does not mean unavailable.
Actuator architecture
No actuator architecture confirmed in targeted search
This records a searched-but-not-confirmed result. It does not mean a particular architecture is absent.
- Search checked
- 2026-09-27
- Search result
- Targeted actuator searches did not confirm an exact-variant architecture claim for this record; this does not mean none exists.
What it has been seen doing
| Capability | Recorded status | Reported autonomy | Source review |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teleoperation shown | recorded demonstrated | reported teleoperated | “Today I'm assisted by a human. I'm not yet fully autonomous”6Needs reviewThe reviewed source does not provide enough evidence for this specific claim.
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| Pick and place | recorded demonstrated | reported unknown | “Totally worthy to celebrate low latency remote control, but totally dishonest to demo these as autonomous robots—call it the parlor trick it is.”7Needs reviewThe reviewed source does not provide enough evidence for this specific claim.
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Results under fixed rules
| Event | Date | Discipline | Result | Rank | Autonomy | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No competition results under a fixed ruleset recorded yet. | ||||||
Price history
| Date | Amount | Variant | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-22 | USD 30,0005 | estimate, not yet for sale | claimedNot reviewedThe cited source has not been reviewed for this specific claim. |
Recorded delivery timeline
- claimed → demonstrated
- demonstrated
- first delivery recorded
Tesla reveals plans for a humanoid robot (initially "Tesla Bot") at AI Day; presented by a person in a costume, not a functioning unit.8
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No customer deliveries confirmed; Tesla states production lines are being installed at Fremont with full-scale manufacturing targeted for 2027.10
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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.11
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- Media type
- Article
- Publisher relation
- Independent source
- Published
- 2026-10-23
Promises
| Promise | Made on | Deadline | Days | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low production of Optimus for Tesla internal use | 2024-07-23 | 307 days overdue | overdue | TechCrunch | |
| High production of Optimus for other companies | 2024-07-23 | 2026-12-31 | 58 days left | open | TechCrunch |
| Optimus ramp to significant production numbers | 2026-04-22 | 2027-12-31 | 423 days left | open | Tesla Q1 2026 earnings call transcript |
| Optimus version 1 in production | 2022-04-08 | 1038 days overdue | missed | CNBC |
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.
Record history
- Tesla, Inc. Optimus: Volume estimate recorded — 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. source
- Tesla, Inc. Optimus: locomotion removed: source did not support value (was bipedal) source
- Tesla, Inc. Optimus: media added — Front view of Tesla's underactuated cable-driven robot hand, FIG. 2 from WO 2024/073138 A1. source
- Tesla, Inc. Optimus: media added — Optimus robot on display at a public exhibition. source
- Tesla, Inc. Optimus: locomotion added: bipedal (demonstrated) source
- Tesla, Inc. Optimus: hand_dof added: 22 (claimed) source
- Tesla, Inc. Optimus: capability "teleoperation-shown" added (demonstrated, teleoperated) source
- Tesla, Inc. Optimus: capability "pick-and-place" added (demonstrated, unknown) source
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